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the twentieth anniversary of the un security council resolution on women peace and security;
all women and girls should be allowed to live free and safe as whole individuals.
combating all forms of violence against women and young girls is a core element of the respect for human rights and fundamental rights.
i hope you all can spend some time with your families and your loved ones.
thank you again for this very important debate and it this indeed a great honour to conclude the finnish presidency with this important topic. president allow me to thank you all for this extraordinary autumn.
thank you all and i wish you all a merry christmas.
i have no doubt that among those actors the european parliament you as representatives will continue to lead on those issues that are at the heart of our common eu values.
thank you all.
it has indeed been a tremendous time with you here in the parliament debating all kinds of different topics. i've spent hours representing the council and the member states in this plenary here in strasbourg and in brussels and it has been worth every minute.
in the light of the proposed accession of the eu to the council of europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence the istanbul convention the finnish presidency calls on all actors to devote special attention to ensuring coherence between internal and external eu policies and action.
the uyghur people have been subjected to unparalleled repression by the chinese government in the past two years due to their unique ethnic identity and religious beliefs.
we hope the award of the prize will lead to the release of ilham tohti and thereafter lead to a change in approach by the authorities of china in upholding human rights.
we cannot stand by and have normal business with china while these appalling human rights violations are taking place.
as a result of his efforts he was sentenced in september two thousand and fourteen to life in prison following a two day show trial.
the european union needs to demand that the chinese authorities respect their fundamental rights and freedoms.
in my view this is probably the most serious human rights violation that is taking place in the world at the moment.
but he's not the only one suffering under the chinese government.
since april two thousand and seventeen over one million innocent uyghurs have been arbitrarily detained in a network of internment camps where they are forced to renounce their ethnic identity and religious beliefs and swear loyalty to the chinese government.
but in the european green deal the commission proposed to make respect of the paris agreement an essential element for all future comprehensive trade agreements.
brazil is now a challenging partner for the eu as we learned last week in the madrid cop twenty five meeting.
the eumercosur agreement includes a binding commitment for the parties to effectively implement the paris agreement but this commitment is made in the sustainable development chapter and as such is not subject to trade sanctions.
let's remember that it was trump who said he was going to stick it to the chinese and declare war on iran and here we are discussing the chinese persecution of its muslim population.
here we have an alleged chinese government source leaking an internal chinese government document to us and eu audiences in english not in chinese and published by a us based ngo funded by us foundations.
madam president we are talking about the china cables obviously modelled on the explosive wikileaks cablegate in two thousand and ten which was a new model of journalism about blowing the whistle on war crimes and corruption of our governments and letting us know about it but this is different.
a week before that we had the iran cables supposedly from iranian leaks telling us how bad the iranian government was.
i have no doubt that the chinese do persecute their muslim population and i condemn it utterly but many member states here have a muslim population which is also being persecuted.
we will try in the uk to do all we can to maintain those crucial workers' rights and environmental protections. finally thank you all for your support of those of us in the uk who have fought to remain.
the future is in fantastic democratic institutions like this and i hope that one day we will return.
partnership between european countries has been incredibly beneficial in advancing scientific and technological knowledge for the benefit of the whole world.
however our system has given him a large majority and brexit will now take place on thirty one january.
i'm particularly concerned about the impact on cooperation in scientific and academic research.
we continue to believe that the uk would have a better future within the eu. mr farage is wrong.
i know that european institutions are concerned that the uk will try to undermine standards on workers' rights and environmental protection and we share those concerns.
we don't believe that we would be in a better situation to address those without the jcpoa being in place.
i would like to thank all of you for all your contributions and for your support.
having said that the process for the annual review of the human rights regime is ongoing.
from the left to the right there are different approaches and different understandings of what's happening in this difficult world in which we have to live.
second human rights sanctions currently eighty three individuals and entities including a ban on exports to iran of equipment which might be used for internal repression and equipment to monitor telecommunications because when you disturb the traffic on the internet
i know that not everybody sees things in the same way.
we have engaged in a frank and active dialogue with iran on all issues maintaining a range of eu autonomous restrictive measures including on human rights violations.
this recognition is a critical step but it is simply not enough.
we and i say the collective we' need to recognise that harmful practices such as fgm cannot be addressed on their own but instead should be treated through a holistic and comprehensive approach to end all forms of violence and work to an eu strategy preventing fgm from continuing for future generations of our girls and women.
it is done to control girls' and women's bodies.
prevention measures need to focus on mobilising communities traditional faith leaders women and men presenting them as agents of change.
it is done to control the lives that they live and the lives they are deserving to live and it's done out of false ideology that a girl would or could positively benefit from fgm.
we and again the collective we' need to fulfil our commitments and continue to recognise our real responsibility within the global community and end fgm.
and to bring it closer to home it will not benefit the one hundred and eighty zero women and girls who are at risk of fgm right here in europe.
we are also hypocrites as we focus attention narrowly on our direct carbon emissions whilst ignoring the co two embodied in the goods we consume that have been imported.
brazil's president bolsonaro saw the provisional mercosur agreement as a green light to invite ranchers to destroy the amazon and murder its indigenous people.
the european green deal is pointless if we do not combine it with an enlightened trade policy.
a genuine green deal means a radical shift towards lowenergy lifestyles in our continent and an enlightened trade policy embedded in the protection of our precious climate which we must respect as a common good for all humanity.
last week the european council reiterated its commitment to a level playing field in standards and regulations in trade between the eu and the uk but the new uk government already threatens to break its commitments. we in the uk now have a serious risk to workers' rights and environmental protections
to parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals and therefore a risk again of the possibility of a no deal brexit at the end of next year.
this parliament elected on proportional representation demonstrates all that can be achieved by nations working together in cooperation representing citizens against global corporate business interests and confronting the global challenges of climate breakdown
social injustice and the ecological crisis.
citizens of europe look to their governments to protect them against the vested interests of financial and property millionaires and corporate power.
many of us in the uk will continue to look to the best in the eu to lead in overcoming these challenges.
and we won't become a third country as i've been hearing this morning.
you're being rejected and it's great news that in poland opinion polls now show a majority of poles think they'd be better off outside the european union.
brexit is the beginning of the end of this project.
we are giving leadership and will take it to a europe of sovereign states working together being friends together but not being run by the gang down at the middle there.
i will take your ideas into account in the development of the new gender equality strategy and throughout my work in the european commission.
i am grateful for the dedication and support of this parliament towards this cause and i look forward to continuing with our collaboration. as mentioned by quite a few of the honourable members here i hope that the remaining six
member states will ratify the istanbul convention. the istanbul convention requires that the state parties criminalise fgm including coercion or procurement of this violation.
i will work so that the eu will manage to ratify the convention during this term but i count on your support to convince the remaining member states.
mr president lgbti isn't an ideology it's who people are. the point i want to make in my explanation of vote is that this resolution talks about homophobia in sport and sadly on occasion and in places
that happens.
what the resolution doesn't talk about though that i want to mention is the important role sport can play in tackling that homophobia.
we've just had another very successful stonewall rainbow laces campaign in football.
i'm a member of the british horseracing authority's diversity and inclusion steering group and there's really important valuable work going on in british horseracing at the moment across the area of equality and diversity.
so let me just make this point unfortunately sport sometimes is the arena of homophobia but it's also the place where we can help win the race to full equality and kick the homophobes and those who make homophobic abuse off the pitch for good.
we are facing one of the biggest human rights crisis on the planet.
a million uyghurs are detained in high security prison camps subjected to and forced into political indoctrination and torture.
these are human rights violations on a scale we have not seen in decades. public statements are no longer enough.
we seriously need to review our relationship with china including trade and undertake an investigation into european companies operating in xinjiang. high representative you and president von der leyen have spoken about being a geopolitical commission.
will the eu remain silent or take serious action against china?
they are also running a massive programme of socalled job training and as a result provide a cheap workforce for chinese factories which are part of the global production chain.
china thus puts its economic growth over the political freedoms of its citizens and chooses assimilation instead of embracing its cultural and religious diversity. i call upon you to work together to make the european global magnitsky act a part of reality.
but the number one policy aim in iran is to stop it building a nuclear weapon and destabilising the middle east but it is now reinstating uranium enrichment.
the fact that the us is the eu's largest trade partner a thousand times greater than trade with iran speaks volumes to the eu's priorities.
its plan to route iranian oil through russia won't help.
the eu's attempts at foreign policy in this area are in a mess.
it is right that a coalition of member states and other global players is part of the solution but without the active involvement of the us the eu is whistling in the wind.
many people in this parliament deny president trump.
i've lost count of how many virtue signalling meps have tried to score cheap points by insulting europe's greatest protector and ally but if we want to keep the middle east nuclear free resume trade and support the human rights of iranians only the americans have the power relationships and influence in the region to make this happen.
the eu needs to urgently restore friendships and influence in washington not tehran and i'm certain that brexit britain's special relationship with the us can help.
as well.
however we have to be cautious with this and we have to ensure the strongest possible safeguards and protections of some of that data particularly people's individual healthcare data which when aggregated to a population level can help the development of new health technologies new treatments and indeed the strengthening of our health systems. we have to be particularly cautious
in how we think about that data becoming a commercial product.
we have to have the right safeguards and protections in place to protect this data.
i would like to point out an increasing trend.
the state has used lethal violence live ammunition against the protesters and this is inexcusable and should be condemned.
we should also be condemning the use of force by the right wing governments in bolivia and chile where people are being killed and thousands are also being imprisoned.
we must recognise too that this brutal response is warmly welcomed by the us who use the language of human rights as a further weapon against iran.
the head of iran policy for the us is brian hook and he said we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to us relations with china russia north korea and iran because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs apply counter pressure and regain the initiative from them strategically'. the us administration
has seen the proof of washington's maximum pressure policy against iran as working causing the iranian people to turn on their political system. this is called foreign interference'.
do you think that europe should still look to get the jcpoa back on track?
in view of this situation we have to raise our voice.
i'm very grateful to the european parliament that across political divisions we are able to prepare a joint resolution condemning the regime for the killings asking the un to
i'm very glad to see this debate happening here today initiated by my own green group.
too often we fall short of the aim of improving the world through our trade policy instead compromising ourselves and our ideals in the interest of corporate profits and unsustainably cheap products.
it is unclear how the proposed mercosur deal can in any way be compatible with the green deal.
how can a deal that ships goods needlessly around the world imports beef produced on cleared rainforest that suits the interest of car manufacturers but not the climate be compatible with the safe clean future for all?
we risk talking out of both sides of our mouth here talking of a circular economy and sustainable agriculture and then importing climate destroying agricultural produce.
any deal needs to comply with our paris obligation needs to protect workers' rights in the eu and in south america and needs to maintain the key elements of the green deal.
it also avoids causing chaos to european farming where irish beef farmers are already facing unacceptably low prices.
it was created by decades of efforts by the us to isolate and suffocate this country to make it impossible for the people of venezuela to determine their own future and to make the economy bleed and the people starve.
so we shouldn't be surprised that there's a humanitarian crisis or that people have been forced to flee.
but increasing humanitarian aid is really a bit like offering somebody bread while you stand by and see their bakery being stolen.
sanctions are denying people a decent future;
help the legal minds who are working with venezuela to try to get their money back to enable the citizens to live a decent life in that state.
with the new green deal we want to ensure a future that is more just more sustainable and completely climate proof.
and let's be frank at the beginning of this term.
it is unthinkable that our farmers our manufacturers have to make a huge effort in the new green deal and at the same time trade policies will remain as they stand.
we cannot open our markets to these countries that at the same time try to profit from social and environmental competition and a race to the bottom.
let me be clear and i said this to you commissioner informally.
first of all we want the brazilians the mercosur countries but brasilia in particular to take a different attitude with the international states. if they want to be our partners in trade they need to be our partners as well when it comes to measures on climate change.
secondly we want pre ratification conditions.
we want to have a change in the policies in brazil on the amazon.
and last but not least and i'm looking to the council in particular but also to the commissioner i want to remind you that we the parliament have a long standing demand to make the tsd chapters legally much more enforceable and that includes sanctions because otherwise the paper on which the tsd chapter is written is useless.
we should use less paper and take more action.
this case is going to be the first big test case for the new geopolitical commission.
last month a brave uyghur dutchwoman helped leak chinese government documents and the china cables show that massive data collection and artificial intelligence are now the tools of totalitarianism.
i think this should be a warning to ourselves as well that these instruments if they exist can and will be used.
so now europe has to follow up and demand the release of the uyghur people held in the camps because that's what they are.
i've heard many good suggestions by colleagues on how to proceed but we also have a new instrument at our disposal and that is the euwide magnitsky act that was endorsed last week by the council.
so mr borrell will you make sure that the european magnitsky act will become a reality without delay?
in fact this deal would make the paris agreement more effective not less because it would anchor our climate commitment in mutually beneficial trade.
i agree with the science that very ambitious measures must be taken to save the climate.
living up to the commitments in the paris agreement will be totally impossible if we don't do it together.
the free trade agreement between the eu and mercosur gives us a unique opportunity to cooperate to put pressure on and create incentives for all partners to take responsibility. modern trade deals with binding chapters on sustainability are the most efficient forms of international cooperation so let us use trade policy as a tool to save the climate instead of treating it like an enemy of the climate.
this deal would make trade more sustainable in a better legal framework.
and dear friends we all share the view that we need to do our utmost to tackle climate change and environmentally related challenges which are becoming ever more urgent.
the commission's european green deal proposes a comprehensive strategy which we will now all need to study carefully.
trade forms an important policy area where sustainability is an important element.
it serves as a platform to engage with trading partners on climate and on environmental action and the trade agreement with mercosur needs to be seen in this light as an opportunity to promote change.
while the current agreement is not perfect and of course no agreement ever is it is economically relevant.
this holds true also for trade agreements and in particular as far as the sustainable development chapters are concerned. i believe that trade offers us real leverage but we need to be prepared to use it and accept that at the end this will also involve
mr president i am pleased to express my strong support for the resolution we've passed today in this parliament against public discrimination and hate speech against lgbti people.
i have to tell mr brudziski and his conservative colleagues that it is right i'm afraid to highlight the cases in poland cases which now include the extraordinary case of bishop szymon niemiec of the reformed church in warsaw who is facing prosecution simply for conducting services of prayer and support for the lgbti community in warsaw.
tolerance and inclusiveness are the foundations upon which the eu was built and continues to build.
we must work together in the fight on the ongoing backlash against lgbti right across europe.
there is no room for lgbt free zones across europe or the continent or the globe.
we must strongly support the role of education in promoting healthy relationships self respect and human rights and dignity.
we must also protect the freedom of movement of lgbti families through concrete measures and protection of the core eu rights as enshrined in the eu charter of fundamental rights and we must not only defend them but expand them.
so for example in any free trade agreement we must have an equality and human rights impact assessment and if it fails there is no deal.
based international trade.
with every new trade agreement the european union is stepping up efforts to implement and enforce sustainable development commitments and the eu mercosur trade agreement is no exception.
with a strong sustainable development chapter in the trade agreement we are on the right track with argentina brazil paraguay and uruguay in committing to the implementation of the paris climate agreement.
mr president the following comments have been made by members of the polish lgbti community now it's cool and trendy to be anti gay we don't feel safe here'.
pis's new focus on countering western lgbti ideology has largely replaced its prior rallying calls against migrants.
i see my colleague is no longer in the chamber for me to call her out on her anti sub saharan phobia because it is the nature of phobia that you just choose another group to speak and act against.
a pis member of the regional parliament who led the campaign for the lgbt free zone declaration said recently for us the whole lgbtq thing is something abnormal.
we feel it is a sick minority trying to impose itself on the healthy mainstream of society'.
we were told in the debate that the poles tolerated homophobia.
with brazil uruguay and argentina which will effectively destroy much of the amazonian rainforest that is left the lungs of the world upend biodiversity and send out a message across the globe that europe is not as serious as it should be about
so we publish a great agenda last week and we undermine it by the very fact that we're trying to promote a mercosur trade deal that undermines everything that we stand for in the context of the green agenda.
so let's be very clear we have to be honest this particular deal does not stack up on many fronts.
it undermines the basic principles that we in europe are promoting in terms of the environment and secondly and as importantly it undermines our agricultural industry as well.
mr commissioner you do not need to be a genius to see how good it is to have comprehensive trade relations with canada japan singapore and many others as others are bringing down what has been built in decades.
and let us now make these agreements the best they can be based on our values and with respect for the environment.
europe has been at its best when it leverages its economic power for good in the world.
with further tools and more effective enforcement as highlighted in the green deal we can make steps in the right direction.
and that is why i call upon the commission to effectively enforce the timber regulation to save the amazon which is a crucial part of our global ecosystem and home to indigenous people whose fundamental rights are on the line.