26/04/2022 | 12:27:58 Yes. Thank you very much Madam Commissioner for your report, for your recommendations, and also for your work in general. Both the questions I wanted to tackle you've already mentioned. It concerns people fleeing from Ukraine. At the beginning there was the concern that we had push-backs of people without Ukrainian citizenship, without ensuing international protection. I want to know what exactly could we do to really protect people, displaced people, fleeing, without distinguishing, and... 25/04/2022 | 17:06:27 Thank you very much, Mr Tiny KOX. I will take another focus. I want to remind you all that about a year ago, or last year at least, we have taken a decision to change our rules of procedure. This change in the rules of procedure obliges us to bring more women into this Assembly. It is now a friendly reminder to all of you not to forget that by January 2023, the number of the women in your national parliaments has to be mirrored here in your delegation. But at least, there will have to be a... 27/01/2022 | 17:08:56 I actually wanted to speak German, because what I'm going to say is very Austrian. At the moment, esotericists, anti-vaxxers, virus deniers and conspiracy theorists are taking to the streets together, hand in hand with convicted neo-Nazis, shouting "we are the new Jews", wearing yellow stars and carrying banners that say "vaccinating makes you free". This is unbearable. It is far from any historical truth; it downplays the Shoah, it downplays the Holocaust. And I was particularly affected by... 27/01/2022 | 12:49:53 Thank you very much, Mr President. I would like to focus on the second part of the title of the current affairs debate: what role for the Council of Europe. And it is indeed not an easy question to answer. It's quite simple what I would suggest to a member country, namely do not become or not stay economically dependent of a country that is problematic when it comes to human rights, to the rule of law, to free and fair elections, to implementation of verdicts of the European Council of Human... 27/01/2022 | 09:11:05 Thank you very much Ms President. "No one is safe until everybody is safe", the report quotes several times. There are still countries where less than 1% of the population is vaccinated, so there is still a long way to go and a lot to do. It's not only because of humanity, to think globally and in an intelligent way. Otherwise, the virus will have the possibility to mutate into new versions which also increases the challenge we all face globally: how to overcome this disease, this pandemic... 26/01/2022 | 12:31:15 Thank you very much Madam President. I really want to support this report. I think it tackles really very important issues, but I want to add another thought: the crises we all witness on many folds – the pandemic, the climate crisis, the crisis of democracy, of rule of law, of uneven distribution of wealth and I would like to add another one which is the growing intolerance. In this respect it is another crisis we are facing: the dislike of the unlike, it's growing in a rapid way and the... 25/01/2022 | 09:51:56 Thank you very much Mr. Tiny KOX, I´d like to start by wishing you all the best for the election. I very much look forward to working with you over the next two years, all the best. On the reports - Mr Fourat BEN CHIKHA is quite right to address in his report that hatred against LGBTIQ people has long had nothing to do with individual expression of hatred. It is much better recognised as organised hatred against persons who simply have a different construction of family and of love to the... 30/09/2021 | 12:58:42 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Humanitarian assistance, the prevention of violence, UN driven resettlement programs, and secure refugee corridors are key for people most at risk in Afghanistan. I am ashamed that my government is among a minority of countries that is not ready to accept a single refugee: not a women judge, not a girl that is denies access to education and is threatened because of her attitude, not a member of an ethnic minority or an LGBTIQ person. Shame on... 29/09/2021 | 18:38:06 Yes, of course. I want to applaud Ms Edite ESTRELA for her farsightedness, for her vision, her and also the Committee of Ministers, to have the idea to transform the human rights to a healthy environment into international hard law. I assume that some decades ago in this Assembly, in this hemicycle, there was somebody who wrote a report about the violence against women. Maybe she had the vision that in some decades that could become a convention, an international convention to combat violence... 29/09/2021 | 11:20:31 Thank you very much, colleagues, I'm convinced this Assembly needs a general rapporteur on the protection of the environment and of the climate. We know that the global heating is everywhere, but not everybody is affected in the same way. There are those who are living in poor houses, close to streets with heavy traffic, with polluted air, hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and having no chance to seek refuge anywhere else. There are those who live in better houses and well-equipped...