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in reality this is about a regime of men scared of women claiming their rights and demanding equality.
madam commissioner i urge you and the high representative to do everything in your power to have these courageous women's rights defenders released immediately.
the iranian regime has a long history of human rights abuses.
taking the liberty to decide for themselves what to wear.
these issues were raised with the myanmar government at the human rights dialogue held in yangon in june two thousand and nineteen co chaired by the eu special representative for human rights eamon gilmore. within the ongoing everything but arms enhanced monitoring
at the same time the european union will continue advocating for the accountability of those who have committed serious abuses of human rights.
the situation inside the camps is deteriorating. more than five hundred zero children remain without access to education.
this was shown by the failure of the recent second attempt for the repatriation of three four hundred and fifty refugees since no one agreed to return to myanmar due to the lack of conditions conducive for returns. the situation in addition to being an urgent humanitarian crisis is
therefore we need to intensify discussions on the prospects for refugees the cox's bazar security situation the livelihood and education opportunities in the camps the access to health and justice the impact on the host communities and of course the joint response plan funding.
this can be achieved only by implementing the recommendations of the advisory commission on rakhine state which the government of myanmar has endorsed.
the european union will continue to call for sustainable solutions for the rohingya and for the myanmar authorities to ensure that conditions are met for safe dignified and voluntary returns.
evolving into a longer term political and security challenge.
the prospects for a rapid return of the refugees into myanmar in a safe dignified and voluntary manner are increasingly unlikely.
twenty nine it was not for jalali he's in jail and sick.
at this rate it would take bangladesh hundreds of years to get through close to a million displaced people on their doorstep and those identified would have to be willing to return without a guarantee of their safety and security.
i call on this house to stand by our principles and support this resolution.
mr president the rohingya tragedy is becoming another of the many unresolved human rights issues which the un can add to its list. bangladesh clearly struggling with its own challenges has been left with the fallout of its neighbour's ghastly actions.
the process of proof of identity cataloguing that of refugees has resulted in three four hundred and fifty people being given approval by the myanmar authorities to return.
the un must take meaningful measures to restore the basic human rights and freedoms of the rohingya whose ancestors have lived in rakhine state for close to one zero years and those guilty of crimes against humanity must be brought to justice.
colleagues it is our duty to stand up for their protection at home and abroad.
having initially been refused access to a trial for months she then faced one by a kangaroo court that was neither free nor fair. in prison nazanin has often been deprived of proper medical assistance. she is no longer allowed international phone calls and can only see her five year old daughter gabriella once a month.
as foreign secretary boris johnson also contributed to making her situation worse and has failed to meet with richard since becoming prime minister.
nazanin has previously gone on hunger strikes and has warned she may do so again if she continues to be deprived of her fundamental human rights.
her husband richard has recently pointed out that the dominance of brexit means her case has fallen off the uk government's agenda.
this treatment is tantamount to state hostage taking.
in circumstances such as these the eu must make its voice heard.
other eu dual nationals suffer from violations of their human rights in iranian prisons and are denied free and fair trials.
in the context of the regular high level political dialogue with iran that aims to advance bilateral cooperation in a number of areas of mutual interest the european union has been consistently raising issues of human rights.
in the joint statement that the eu published on eight may this year we stated that we are committed to giving all women and girls equal access to health services education and economic empowerment and opportunities to shape their own future.
there again i would like to be clear the practice of detaining and imprisoning individuals such as the uk iranian citizen nazanin zaghari ratcliffe solely on account of their nationality is contrary to the international covenant on civil and political rights which iran has ratified and is bound to uphold.
we also call on iran to ensure that no individual is detained arbitrarily and that detainees are not subject to any form of mistreatment.
every year on eight may the international community marks international women's day.
detainees should also have timely access to a lawyer of their own choosing and to adequate medical care.
who earlier this month set herself on fire after learning that she faced a prison sentence for trying to attend a football match and who died in the hospital from her wounds.
we have been vocal in this demand for instance in the case of the two thousand and twelve sakharov prize laureate nasrin sotoudeh who was sentenced to long periods of imprisonment because of her advocacy for fundamental human rights.
the rights of women and girls are also likely to figure prominently during iran's upcoming universal periodic review in november.
we have regularly engaged with the authorities to demand that human rights defenders including women must not be subjected to harassment or detention.
and we continue to be vocal including in international fora such as the united nations human rights council.
they face hatred harassment intimidation and incitement to violence often of a sexual nature or they face imprisonment for standing up for their basic rights. in this context i would like to express how deeply saddened i am by the fate of sahar khodayari
unfortunately in too many countries including iran women continue to face threats and abuse because they are human rights defenders or simply because they are women.
iran's continued practice of detaining dual nationals clearly breaches the commitment that no one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest or detention. as the european union we will continue to call for the release of all eu iranian dual nationals and all iranian human rights defenders.
for the european union this is a time to pay tribute to acts of courage and determination by ordinary women around the world who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.
our commitment to support human rights defenders including women's rights defenders also applies to our work in iran.
we will never stop fighting for true equality for all inside and outside the european union to make sure that progress achieved is not undone.
the politicians of myanmar are not protecting the rohingya people either. mr president we all know the saying all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing'.
mr president since two thousand more than seven hundred zero of the rohingya people have been forced to abandon their homes in myanmar to become refugees in bangladesh and we know that the armed forces continue to cause widespread terror in the rohingya community through committing appalling human rights violations.
and we also know that approximately forty of the rohingya refugees situated in camps in bangladesh are children who are now forced to grow up in overcrowded refugee camps without hope and without a future.
we know that the myanmar authorities enabled these crimes by continuously turning a blind eye and by refusing to hold those responsible accountable.
i myself did a field trip to myanmar together with unicef two years ago and without access to formal education the future of rohingya children is disappearing right before their eyes.
by creating telecommunication blackouts in the northern and central parts of rakhine state making media coverage and access impossible and by refusing to collaborate with un mechanisms.
last century europe suffered the horrible consequences of the holocaust when good men did nothing.
these include killings burnings of villages and systematic gender based violence.
it's vital that that knowledge is available to small farmers and plant breeders.
the patenting of natural plant developments in addition to allowing corporations to own knowledge making it inaccessible to farmers often conflicts with indigenous knowledge and the rights of indigenous people the sustainability of local ecosystems and even the ability of nations to provide food security and to protect the global environment.
large transnational corporations effectively steal the knowledge of natural plants used for generations by local people without their knowledge and without their consent.
mr president while we debate this worrying situation i would like to highlight eu hypocrisy on the question of democracy. municipal elections took place across turkey earlier this year which led to the opposition party winning in istanbul. however at an akp party meeting mr erdogan said
re running the vote was the best step for turkey to solve its problems within a framework of democracy and law.
in fact our very own guy verhofstadt said this is an outrageous decision that highlights turkey is drifting towards dictatorship and that under such leadership accession talks are impossible.
the greatest ally the european union member states have had in history is the united states of america.
when the usa rightly imposed sanctions on iran the european union actively went about trying to undermine those sanctions by setting up a subsidiary a special purpose vehicle to step around the sanctions.
in june this year the usa asked for support in the straits of hormuz and eu member states turned it down.
you won't forget that in july a british ship was taken by the iranians something which might not have happened had the eu supported american efforts.
and now we have all this virtue signalling in this inept chamber and no action taken by the european union to support the greatest ally this country has ever had.
get behind the united states of america.
demonstrates the inadequacy of the return conditions.
the myanmar government must create conditions that can enable safe dignified and voluntary returns.
according to the international rescue committee there are a million rohingya refugees surviving purely on humanitarian aid. so i urge the eu and the international community to create a mediumterm plan to deal with the impact of this crisis and to call on myanmar to address the root causes including systematic persecution and violence.
there must be no military impunity for the grave human rights violations committed against the rohingya community.
there must be sustainable conditions to enable the community to thrive and not merely to survive after the suffering they have faced.
as has been said by particularly allowing women the freedom they deserve and as one mep said men in iran should not be telling women what to wear.
for many of us this is very personal.
my wife's grandfather was an auschwitz survivor and it chills me to the bone that things could easily have been very different and my wife and my daughter would not exist.
my own grandfathers were a paratrooper who fought in the war and a railwayman who had to keep trains at the docks moving while bombs fell from the sky.
we europeans are united by history by memory and resolve to make a better future.
but i voted for the motion in spite of one reservation which was that the motion speaks only of brutality by europeans against other europeans on the continent of europe.
there are europeans today whose ancestors come from asia africa and the americas and we must be clear that all atrocities are to be remembered. all our ancestors matter.
mr president i think one of the most important clauses of the resolution we've approved today in the parliament and which i supported is the importance of ensuring young people and future generations know and understand what happened during the darkest days of europe's past.
and in voting for this resolution i pay particular tribute to the work of the national holocaust centre and museum in the east midlands and the holocaust education trust in the uk who do vital work to ensure that young people and school students understand what happened and understand their role and can be empowered to tackle hate and prejudice
today. i also pay particular tribute to holocaust survivors who make it their personal mission today to ensure that those young people and all of us today understand the significance of what happened and can help empower all of us to ensure that when we say never again' we truly mean never again.
to some extent it reminds me of our peaceful resistance to the soviet occupation especially with the baltic way only we achieved freedom while iranian colleagues have been sentenced to prison with sentences of unimaginable length.
i call on the iranian government to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with international human rights standards and international instruments ratified by that country.
i fully support calling for the release of those women in prison for their political and protest activity to advance women's rights in iran and indeed their right to wear whatever they like.
and i absolutely condemn the death penalty including on those under age.
but i have to say that i do find the motion imbalanced at a time when tone is important at a time when iran is under siege from many international players.
so in that sense we all know iran has to change they're not the only ones but of course they know this and i welcome the fact that there is now an equal number of women as clerics in the iranian parliament.
i'm looking forward to a time when there are more but this motion won't help unless we include the amendments on the sanctions.
traditionally shia societies prided themselves on being more liberal than some other creeds but today iran is a country which executes one of the greatest numbers of its citizens while its justice system doesn't meet any criteria that we would recognise.
i think i am right in saying that iran has the death penalty for homosexuality for example.
attacks on saudi oil facilities and i don't think those drones and those missiles were built by some rebels in the mountains. that equipment came from somewhere and saudi arabia has made a case for it being supplied by the islamic republic of iran.
mr president i've met richard ratcliffe the husband of dual national nazanin zaghariratcliffe who's led the threeyear campaign for her release from prison in iran even going on hunger strike earlier this year in solidarity with his wrongfully incarcerated wife.
nazanin is alone in a country that refuses to recognise her dual citizenship forces her into solitary confinement and holds the threat of a second trial and conviction over her head. the appalling conditions she endures are undeniably inhumane and must come to an end. nazanin is a prisoner alongside uk resident aras amiri who was jailed last year while visiting family in iran
whilst dual britishiranian national kamil ahmadi a hugely respected academic and campaigner dedicated to ending fgm was recently detained in iran on unknown charges.
and i refer here to the unfortunate and misleading statements made by boris johnson when he was foreign secretary.
mr president while we know that women play a prominent role in iran in a way that would put saudi arabia to shame we also know that iran has no defence on many of these issues relating to women's rights and things must change.
but to erase all mention of the illegal us sanctions against iran is to ignore the world that these women and children must live in.
it's a slow form of torture to hit the weak children and women the most.
to claim to champion the human rights of a people while refusing even to acknowledge let alone criticise a brutal economic sanctions regime against the same people speaks volumes about the political nature of that concern for human rights.
iran is under siege from many international players at the moment and we need to work with them to help them out of the impasse.
mr president i'd like to first say i stand with those courageous women peacefully protesting for their rights in iran.
our citizens have become pawns in this geopolitical game and yet the eu remains the biggest global champion of the iran nuclear deal with cynical commercial undertones.
iran benefits from eu investment while it continues to prop up terrorist groups in the region.
and while the eu rightly speaks about the human rights atrocities what does speaking do?
but the names of just some of those languishing in iranian prison cells need to be spoken.
our citizens who live in fear and isolation right now real people like jolie king and mark firkin nazanin zaghari ratcliffe kylie moore gilbert anoosheh ashoori and morad tahbaz.
mr president i voted against this resolution not because i don't care about historical remembrance but i care too much about historical facts and memory to allow them to be turned into a revisionist political football to push the eu's contemporary agenda.
this motion treats europe and european history with disdain by flattening european history into the eu's history.
it hijacks the brave fight against fascism and the horrors of the holocaust by the way you managed to forget the jews in this motion to push simplistic propaganda points about eu federalism and expansionism.
especially we expect that iran will respect the human rights of iranian citizens and those living in or visiting the country.
mr president the removal of three recently elected hdp mayors by the turkish authorities follows a previous two and a half year long government appointed trustee rule in kurdish municipalities which not only severely circumvented local democracy but also devastated municipal infrastructures with embezzlement cronyism and bribery.
since their election in may the hdp mayors had worked to bring their municipalities back to a functional state by paying debts and restoring essential services including the payment of workers' salaries.
i tried to imagine if this was my city and i was simply trying to pay my council tax;
these communities need our solidarity which is why i'm encouraging labour mayors to join a twinning project with kurdish mayors.
volunteer firefighters are a pillar of emergency and civil protection services in many member states and their contribution to the efficiency of those services is undisputed.
i can add that i have a great personal respect for their commitment.
the organisation and the functioning of firefighting services is and remains a competence of individual member states and each member state has its own specificities and needs.
i doubt whether this is really necessary or whether this is the best solution but you understand that as a member of the outgoing commission i cannot commit the next commission to initiate such a proposal.
peaceful acts of protest by women human rights defenders in particular.
for being a woman for not wearing a hijab or headscarf watching a football match or trying to at a stadium handing out flowers on international women's day.
the women many of them with dual nationalities that are eu are being targeted with dire consequences.
there is a long list in this resolution of names including nazanin as has been mentioned many times here already of extreme punishments of years and years in prisons lack of medical care and lack of access to legal representatives.
now these human rights offences are of the highest order and we must call it out and we must do something about it.
however ensuring that democracy goes well beyond the balloting process on voting day requires a political environment with freedom of expression and respect for plurality.
it is central that elected representatives are able to exercise their political mandate freely and without fear of repression dismissal or detention.
following the march elections we saw the decision to declare elected mayors ineligible to assume office and to give mayoral mandates to the candidates with the second highest number of votes.
the respect for democratic outcomes was further put into question with the suspension last month of the mayors of the cities of mardin van and diyarbakir who were replaced by state governors.
this deprives voters of political representation at local level and seriously damages democracy.
turkey must repeal measures that inhibit local democracy.
this follows clearly from the recommendations of the venice commission and from turkey's obligations as a member of the council of europe.
however those security challenges cannot justify dismissals for political reasons applying broad anti terror or criminal legislation.
unfortunately the negative developments in the rule of law are not limited to the recent local elections.
there are still a large number of journalists writers academics politicians and human rights defenders in detention in turkey for instance osman kavala who has been detained for almost two years or selahattin demirta whose case was heard yesterday by the grand chamber of the european court of human rights.
we've also seen a dramatic increase in prosecutions for insulting the president as exemplified by the case of canan kaftanciolu.
the european union has consistently called upon turkey to ensure the respect of fundamental freedoms in accordance with turkey's obligations as a candidate country and as a member of the council of europe.
this is not just about turkey's status as a candidate country.
it is also about the kind of country turkish citizens want and deserve a country with stronger institutions a more inclusive country and a country where they can all find their place and contribute to turkish society's collective progress.
in the european union we will continue to work to support a strong free safe prosperous and democratic turkey as a key neighbour and partner in our region not just as a candidate country.
i firmly believe in tax sovereignty. member states have a responsibility to deal with their own companies and jurisdictions but they also have a responsibility to ensure that their tax law does not create perverse incentives globally.
estimates of one trillion euros per year being lost to fraud tax evasion and tax avoidance are shocking at any time but more so when our governments need every penny of tax revenue to rebalance their budgets and get deficits under control.
twenty david cameron is leading the debate internationally to find ways of solving these problems globally agreed standards for reporting exchanges of relevant quality data and simplified tax systems.
suppliers of energy wishing to use fossil fuels are penalised financially and those plants will eventually be closed down.
renewable energy might well be a desirable ideal but it is inefficient and expensive.
but borders' means all borders and not just the borders of member states. action needs to be by extensive international agreement and not confined to the eu.
high energy costs will not create growth jobs and competitiveness they will destroy them.
the difficulty facing the eurozone will doubtless come up.
on another subject to talk about growth jobs and competitiveness in the context of the eu's energy policy is wildly optimistic.
they will be the key to growth and jobs.
there is also consensus on the scope of the revised directive on the taxation of savings income which should enable it to be adopted by the council by the end of this year.
at international level the eu will play a key role in supporting and promoting the automatic exchange of information as the new international standard taking account of existing eu arrangements.
the commission has agreed to prepare an analysis of the composition and drivers of energy prices and costs by the end of the year.