21/06/2023 | 16:00:43 Thank you, Mister President. Multilateralism costs money, a lot of money, indeed. It offers gains. Combatants meet at the table, and not on the battlefield. That means that multilateralism not only saves our values. It saves lives. It saves the environment. It saves societies that otherwise would be destroyed. Multilateral bodies, like the Council of Europe, not only face the challenge of keeping, of restoring things, we also have to repair things which often were destroyed by the greed of... 20/06/2023 | 19:25:43 Thank you very much, Thank you very much, Mister President. My very dear Ms Selin SAYEK BÖKE, I have read your report with great interest, and I am extremely sorry that it will be your last report. In a nutshell, it is simply an appeal for human rights-based health policy. When I talk about human rights in relation to health, I can't help but also point out that sexual and reproductive rights are human rights that are related to health and that they should never be second-class health... 19/06/2023 | 15:55:40 Thank you very much, Mr Tiny KOX. I would like to take the occasion in my role as General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance to inform you and to share some information about the progress the Parliamentary No Hate Alliance made. We had the possibility to meet in May in Vienna in the newly refurbished parliament for a seminar where we not only had the chance to dive deeper into the root causes of racism and intolerance and learn how NGOs are working to empower those who are... 26/04/2023 | 17:00:08 Thank you very much, Mister Tiny KOX. I actually wanted to speak in German. Let me address two different levels to this issue. On the one hand, a very general but very worrying one is, namely, the fact that our world is really in a state of emergency, that our world is on the verge of a real collapse. This is really very, very serious. Thank you, Mister Simon MOUTQUIN, for the report, which is, I think, very very important at this time. There are still quite a few corporations all over the... 24/04/2023 | 17:10:21 Dear Ms Dunja MIJATOVIC, Thank you very much for the work that lies behind your report. Your report also mentions the right to live in a healthy environment. We know that last week, Mr António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, published a letter to his fictional great-great-granddaughter, where he stresses his concern that maybe humankind will not manage the challenges of the climate crisis. I think it's also a task for us to do work on this. My question is: What exactly can... 27/01/2023 | 10:37:54 Thank you very much, Since I will only have thirty seconds to explain my amendment later, I would like to address the issue of codes of conduct here and now. Previous speakers have said how these automated weapons systems are developing incredibly rapidly, and I don't believe we have time for all these legalistic manoeuvres. Rather, we have got to find a straightforward path ahead; we have got to look at how human control can be exercised over these systems and make sure we can do something... 25/01/2023 | 17:52:06 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. Violence has many faces. It can be systematic, economic, psychological, emotional, physical, sexual or any combination you could consider. I want to thank the three rapporteurs. You shared the figures with us. The alarming figures. Ms Margreet De BOER, Ms Petra STIENEN, Ms Zita GURMAI, thank you very much for this work, for this really great work. I know how emotional it can be to work on violence, especially after my report yesterday on conflict-related... 25/01/2023 | 10:41:41 Yes, thank you very much for this really important report. I would like to focus exclusively on the aspects relating to the International Criminal Court, where ecocide would be the fifth crime, alongside crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and aggression. I think this would be a very, very important step. There is also a very concrete legal proposal as to how this crime could be defined, where it would be a matter of punishing unlawful or wanton acts that would cause serious, far... 24/01/2023 | 11:33:25 Thank you all for your support, for your commitment and I hope that we will all together get active against this atrocity. I also want to thank Ms Penelope DENU from the Secretariat who did a great job on this report as well. It was a great co-operation as always. And let me make three remarks content-wise. First of all, this morning, we appointed the very first male rapporteur on combating violence against women in the history of the Parliamentary Assembly. Mr Even ERIKSEN from Norway will... 24/01/2023 | 10:08:15 Thank you, Mr President. In my report on conflict-related sexual violence, I enshrine a couple of recommendations on different topics, beginning with –of course– prevention. Prevention of sexual violence in conflicts starts long before the war, long before a conflict starts. It starts when it comes to education of soldiers. It starts when we see how the gender balance in an army or in police forces are. That's awareness raising on the possibility of sexual violence is made. I also tackle the...