26/04/2023 | 17:26:53 Mister President, Dear colleagues, I want to express my solidarity with Türkiye and its people, who are currently struggling to secure people's basic needs after a massive earthquake. More than 57 000 victims and thousands injured – it's a tragedy. Last year France and Spain suffered from devastating forest fires that deprived thousands of people of their homes. In Germany, severe floods destroyed entire villages. The list is long. I thank the rapporteur for this timely and important report... 25/01/2023 | 19:25:41 Mister President, The Istanbul Convention is the most far-reaching international convention for preventing and combating violence against women. Yet, some governments have withdrawn their signatures. The many false narratives surrounding the Convention cost lives and cause a lot of human suffering. States should strengthen and renew their commitment to ending violence against women. Finland was among the first to sign the Istanbul Convention in 2015. The ratification made it clear that... 25/01/2023 | 12:37:00 Madam President, Mr Duncan BAKER's report is a timely example of the various modern challenges to human rights and democracy. During the last few years, the use of contact tracing applications and other health monitoring applications has exploded. While people eagerly feed personal data, such as information on diet, illnesses, and menstrual cycles into these apps, the legislation is lagging. When the pandemic hit, contact-tracing applications were developed in a haste often at the detriment... 11/10/2022 | 20:13:41 Madam President and Dear Colleagues, As an MP of a country defending the EU's 1 300-km external border, I support the description given by the notion of free to public policy or public security or to national security in this legal framework. However, I agree with the rapporteur that the aim of this notion is not to prevent political dissidents from entering the European Union. According to the European Convention on Human Rights, anyone entering a member State has the same human rights and... 11/10/2022 | 19:20:20 Madam President, Dear Colleagues, Thank you to our Swedish colleague, who raises a very serious and sometimes silenced issue as well. Thank you. It's a lot. It's a really interesting report. The report underlines the role of political actors in preventing stigmatisation. This is a meaningful aspect. We can learn to meet differences only by facing difference. Some people have no experience of meeting Muslims. People also often still often wrongfully link Islam to extremism, such as fears of... 22/06/2022 | 18:00:51 Mister President, dear colleagues, I want to thank you for the excellent report on women in peace reconciliation. Although I find the message of the report very important, I hoped for more concrete proposals. The war in Ukraine has reminded us that there are very few women in leading security policy or business roles. Of the leaders of Europe’s largest companies, only 10% are women. And we saw it in our parliaments. Most of the experts our Parliament heard in relation to the war in Ukraine... 25/04/2022 | 19:30:48 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Let me start by condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Ending the war, sorting out human rights violations committed in Ukraine and prosecuting those responsible is our main goal. But other human rights issues also need our attention. At the start of the war there was great concern over graphic war-related content spreading on TikTok before the eyes of children. Yet, the problem of children seeing and accessing disturbing content... 03/10/2019 | 21:05:11 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Madam President, dear colleagues, Thank you Ms Blondin for this excellent report. This is a difficult subject because it is a personal experience with many dimensions. However, I welcome that we can openly talk about childbirth-related pain, fears and traumas in this Assembly. Unfortunately, obstetric violence is an often-overlooked type of violence against women. I would like to raise my own views in this matter, because this is an important... 02/10/2019 | 10:50:30 Thank you Mr President and dear colleagues. As pointed out in Lord BALFE’s timely report, ombudsman institutions play a crucial role all over Europe. Their task is to protect people from poor governance and violations of human rights and uphold democracy. As a member of the constitutional law committee in the parliament of Finland, I am personally interested in this topic. We are living also in interesting times now. The constitutional state and the rule of law are being questioned all over...