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in addition to the pervasive poverty witnessed in so much of the region south sudan has huge challenges in terms of governance corruption poor infrastructure and poor services and in particular the issue of women's and girls' rights. these problems must be tackled on a regional basis.
certainly insofar as the international community attempts to help we must coordinate our strategies for the horn of africa and the sahel regions of africa on both of which i have written reports for this parliament this year.
i repeat my call on the south sudanese government to respect the rule of law and to devote its efforts to strengthening democratic institutions tackling widespread corruption and of course improving relations with its neighbour to the north sudan.
for this reason i called for the full implementation of the comprehensive peace agreement cpa and for the two sides to come together in a spirit of partnership and reconciliation to address in particular the issues of debt sharing and oil revenues given that production of oil generates the vast majority of the national budget and disputes over ownership and pipelines could yet lead to fresh conflict between the two countries potentially exacerbated by the apparently ethnic and religious based clashes that are driving
we must do all that we can to nurture the enthusiasm in this new country and deploy all the eu's resources and instruments available to help integrate it into a global community of free democratic and prosperous states.
mr president i am glad that this house has adopted the alternative resolution and rejected the estrela report.
in its original state this report was disrespectful to this house and the fundamental principle of subsidiarity but that disrespect was minor compared to the lack of respect care and humanity showed towards the unborn child.
i make no apology for rejecting any suggestion that abortion is a human right.
the overarching human right in this debate for me is the right to life of the unborn child that must be protected.
to demand of any individual an act that is so fundamentally against what they believe often belief shaped by faith is a violation of the right to religious freedom and indeed would result in such practitioners being excluded from aspects of the medical profession.
ultimately these are matters that should be left for member states to decide upon.
i know the vast majority of people in my constituency of northern ireland want their local politicians to lead in this matter and certainly not ms estrela.
mr president the tragic death of sattar beheshti as a result of brutal torture in the infamous evin prison following his arrest for so called actions against national security' on social networks and facebook is unfortunately not an isolated case at all. according to human rights watch at least fifteen people detained for exercising their basic rights have died in custody or as a result of injuries from alleged mistreatment or neglect since.
the international working class and anti war movement must stand against any military action or sanctions against the iranian people while at the same time supporting their struggle to release all political prisoners end state torture end the death penalty and overthrow this regime.
two thousand and eleven this repression and brutality needs to end now. of course this repression and brutality also should not be used as a pretext for military action against iran.
two thousand and nine added to that is the massive number of activists who have been executed on trumped up charges.
the european union responded swiftly by urging the iranian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances of his death.
despite constitutional guarantees of equality they are subject to an array of discriminatory laws and practices.
the authorities did not provide any explanation for his death.
the problem is that we are being forced once again to ask the iranian authorities to ensure that prisoners are not subjected to any torture or other ill treatment and that they are allowed to have regular access to lawyers of their choice and medical treatment when needed.
we are concerned that they did not receive a fair trial and they were subjected to torture during their detention.
this needs to change and the eu needs to step up in encouraging the iranian authorities to re engage in a human rights dialogue.
this shows the barbaric unlawful and violent nature of the iranian regime.
executed over the past thirty years many of them supporters of the opposition pmoi.
we must never send a friendship delegation to that fascist regime again.
the only reason they were stopped was because we awarded the sakharov prize to the iranian dissident nasrin sotoudeh who is now on her sixth day of hunger strike and is critically ill.
mr president the fascist iranian regime has used the smokescreen of gaza to accelerate the number of executions and amputations that have been taking place in that country. more than eighty people have been executed in the past ten days but that simply adds to the one hundred and twenty zero people
we can only hope that a new momentum of diplomatic pressure might persuade the brutal iranian government to improve its legal and judicial processes and to stop persecuting its own citizens who deserve much better.
the eu mandates the european union to defend human rights.
therefore i say this i stand by the generation of women who have fought for their right for equality their right to choose what to do with their bodies and for their continuing fight.
i believe that the draft spanish law discriminates against women and the argument of subsidiarity holds no weight.
madam president i have listened to the views of the other side of the house and i respect their views but i do not endorse them.
let us be absolutely clear the spanish draft law affects us all. if women are denied their basic rights in an eu member state such as spain it affects not only those women who live there but also other women citizens of that member state or any women who work reside study or even go there as tourists.
the conscience clauses have been suspended removed or drastically limited.
it is nothing but an ideological ploy to condone morally dubious practices. this is what the left did in the past and this is what they are doing today.
i therefore call on the european commission to defend those rights and the free choice of all women by promoting sexual education medical assistance and support prevention contraception the morning after pill and abortion. this should be affordable and accessible for
it is an issue of shared concern that requires a european approach.
this includes those in developing nations the economically disadvantaged and the poorly informed or educated and those women who live in societies in which women are treated unequally or even regarded simply as property.
it will also come as a surprise to learn that in several countries in the eu the age of consent is as low as fourteen. these debates must include all actors in society not just politicians but also healthcare professionals teachers parents and given the moral implications the church.
that is why i could not support it as i believe this to be a national competence.
the treaties stipulate that the definition of health policies and the organisation and delivery of health services and medical care is the responsibility of individual member states a responsibility that the european union respects.
sex education is also the competence of the member states.
madam president i was six years old when i first demonstrated for the right to choose.
my mother and her generation fought for and won autonomy over their own bodies.
i thought that these rights once they were won were safe for my generation and that of our sons and daughters and that we could go on to fight for other rights that we have yet to gain such as equality in business leadership or equal parenting.
how extremely depressing it is to find that this is not the case.
the spanish plan for a restrictive abortion law is a huge setback not only for spanish women but for the fight for women's rights everywhere.
it means that this fight will never be over.
we will have to keep on defending every right forever.
i wish we did not have to but if we must we will fight.
i want to assure my spanish colleagues that they are not alone.
they have the full strength of all progressive forces and of the women's rights movement behind them and we will do everything in our power to make sure that every woman in the eu gets and keeps the right to decide.
madam president the commission fully recognises that each and every individual has the fundamental right of access to high quality healthcare.
we therefore need to continue and increase our efforts to eliminate all forms of inequality and discrimination including discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation.
everybody should have access to high quality healthcare regardless of gender age race sexual orientation disease social status education or country of residence.
it involves for example education justice and social affairs in short all the different constituent areas that collectively make up our societal models.
sexual and reproductive health is of course part of the health status of the population and equally needs to be considered within a perspective of equality and non discrimination both inside and outside the european union.
it is unacceptable that many forms of violence which clearly have an impact on health are still deemed in certain quarters to be justified' by custom tradition culture privacy religion or honour.
i would like to understand what my colleague mr paksas means when he says that the rights of parents to raise their children according to their own convictions are being restricted. i would like to know how the rights of parents are restricted by giving the right of choice to women. nobody is obliged to have an abortion; nobody is obliged to use their access to family planning methods. how are the rights of parents restricted by giving more freedom and more choice to women?
in conclusion mr paksas i am so glad that i come from a country where abortion is safe and legal and people like you do not get to decide over my life and my body.
with regard to the point concerning subsidiarity i believe the epp is being slightly hypocritical here and applying double standards because this house adopts many resolutions on a wide range of issues in which we have no competence.
i remember an epp rapporteur who once did a report on the rights of circus animals so we cannot talk about the rights of spanish women but we can talk about circus animals!
the epp supports the so called alliance for families' which is understood as families in the conservative traditional sense.
as the commissioner rightly said sexual and reproductive health rights are part of our national health systems.
we have an eu public health strategy but sexual and reproductive health rights are a glaring omission.
is it true that spanish women have massively resorted to abortion because it was legal?
finally if you think that women are competent to decide on something as important as having children and raising them or if you think women are competent enough to run say germany or the imf then surely they are competent enough to decide about their own bodies and their own lives.
we appreciate the commission's efforts to help countries like bulgaria romania greece and italy in overcoming the austerity trap through the wise and efficient investment of structural funds.
nevertheless we fully share the view that the potential of cohesion policy to generate growth and jobs must be fully exploited.
so we are all for efforts exerted at all levels of european governance to get the most out of eu budget supported policies.
looking more carefully into this announcement we understand that these funds have not yet been allocated to concrete projects but that they are already committed to priorities and programmes.
the last summit finally admitted what many of us in this house have been repeating stubbornly for years namely that any further budget consolidation including austerity packages must be growth friendly.
in record time we adopted the amendments to the general regulation to increase co financing rates.
we need young people we need a workforce that is able to meet the challenges from the low cost economies.
in order to end that brain drain we need to provide opportunities for our young people.
the action teams are to be established in the eight worst member states which includes ireland of course on a pilot basis and would explore ways of using the funding that could be reprogrammed from the social and regional funds of that member state for projects to alleviate youth unemployment.
we cannot afford cuts to current worthy structural fund projects in order to introduce new programmes.
we need additional funding streams to help tackle this problem.
we absolutely need specific additional measures and a growth friendly economic governance structure to help ease the burden of youth unemployment and to ensure that the next generation is not unduly burdened by this crisis and that young people have access to education training and employment.
to tighten his grip on the people.
it was a very similar contract to the one that the eu has taken upon itself for the people of the european union.
we may be a long way from egypt at the moment but we will fast catch up.
do not tighten your grip anymore.
that contract is all well and good for as long as stability security and economic prosperity continue and like the european union the wheels came off in egypt and his response to the wheels coming off the economy was to tighten his grip on power
and the european union's response is exactly the same it wishes to tighten its grip every time something goes wrong.
he delivered none of this but a crackdown on political opponents media and civil society.
according to amnesty international four three hundred people including women and minors have been arrested since the start of the protests in september. it is outrageous.
ten days later his body was found with evidence of the most severe torture.
mr president i rise once again to speak about human rights in egypt.
my question though to the commissioner what answers do you have?
so what are you doing to review the billions of euros we send to egypt through the european neighbourhood instrument and what is the commission proposing to cut back in order to get some answers from egypt?
el sisi promised stability security and economic prosperity to the people of egypt.
many colleagues have referred to the case of giulio regeni a cambridge university student from italy who went missing in cairo whilst undertaking research for his phd.
almost four years on we have no answers from el sisi and the egyptian government.
now trump may be willing to turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses in egypt but we are not.
so i call for an immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners in particular ramy shaabh and mohamed masry.
we must make sure that passengers affected by the collapse of travel companies today and indeed the workers of such companies are fully protected in the future and that the lessons are learnt from the devastating collapse of thomas cook which has affected six hundred zero passengers and many thousands of workers across the uk and europe.
and of course the passengers on those first journeys organised by thomas cook into europe will not have had the protection of atol or indeed the european union.
madam president when i step off the train this evening in leicester i will immediately see the statue of thomas cook there to commemorate thomas cook his business and indeed some of the first pioneering journeys he organised.
the new plan by the government is to reintroduce the kill the gays' bill from. two thousand and fourteen this bill criminalises not only the act of same sex activities it even makes it clear that anyone who is even involved in promotional and information dissemination also has to be criminalised.
the international community cannot let this happen.
mr president uganda is a country where the human rights of the lgbti community have been stripped away by anti gay legislation for a very long time.
the country's lgbti community has a history of being harassed and silenced by the government and the ugandan police.
the bill will lead to witch hunts more harassment violence and as we have seen even extrajudicial executions.
we need to remind uganda that the right to sexuality and to express one's sexuality and freedom from discrimination is based on the universality of human rights and is guaranteed by international human rights law.
there are around half a million lgbti people in uganda and yet homosexuality is still illegal.
hollow words in this chamber may make us feel selfrighteous but they have no impact at all on the persecuted lgbti people in uganda.
this talking shop will not help people in uganda.
samesex marriage is constitutionally banned and lgbti people are unable to express themselves freely.
it is particularly concerning that arrests targeted politicians human rights defenders lawyers and journalists most of whom are detained on terrorism related charges.
these events take place against an otherwise positive recent record on social and economic rights.
the european union welcomes the passing of a new ngo law which replaces the muchcriticised two thousand and seventeen law.
there is a clear need for accountability for all forms of pressure harassment and violence against human rights defenders and civilians seeking to exercise their right to protest peacefully.
it is crucial that it is implemented in a way that allows civil society to work freely and that all restrictive measures for human rights defenders under the foreign funding case are lifted.
mr president the european union has a clear interest in egypt's long term stability and security and it is our firm conviction that this can only be achieved if human rights are fully implemented and upheld in line with the country's international commitments its own legal provisions and the partnership priorities jointly agreed with the european union.
mr president i would like to highlight just one case the case of ibrahim ezz el din who is an egyptian human rights defender and a researcher specialising in housing rights at the egyptian commission for rights and freedom he.
since then his family have not had any contact with him the local police station denies his presence within their premises and the attorney general has not responded to numerous queries.
he is the fifth staff member of ecrf to be arrested since two thousand and sixteen as part of a crackdown on human rights defenders in egypt.
ibrahim's arrest is believed to be linked to his criticism of government housing and urban planning policies including shanty towns and evictions.
i urge parliament to recognise this as one of many urgent cases in egypt and call on the egyptian authorities to take all necessary measures for the safe release of ibrahim ezz eldin and so many other human rights defenders in egypt.
the uk government should make use of this facility to offer training and assistance to those seeking new jobs.
more than five hundred jobs at the airport were dependent on thomas cook. i'm pleased to see the parliament calling for a thorough analysis of the collapse better to anticipate and hopefully to prevent these situations happening in future.
i'm writing to the secretary of state to urge her to do so at the earliest opportunity.
madam president the collapse of the thomas cook group has had a serious effect on consumers employees and businesses across europe.
the resolution also highlights the possibilities provided by the globalisation adjustment fund to assist people who have lost their jobs.
having sex outside of marriage or keeping people who love each other from being married.
mr president should not be a crime. yet this is the case in more than seventy countries around the world.
i want to entire lgbt community of uganda to know that the european parliament stands with them because love can never be a crime.
whether or not this proposal is adopted homosexuality is already a crime in uganda and lgbt people are subject to cruel violence and discrimination.
they fuel it.
the government not only allows this to happen;
it's our duty to stand up for human rights and the eu should take a leading role in abolishing capital punishment everywhere.
we felt repulsed last week when members of the ugandan government expressed support for a proposal to introduce a punishment that should not exist for an act that is not criminal capital punishment for homosexual activities.
these measures include immediate cessation of any activities related to the preparation of eba regulatory or supervisory policies attendance at board meetings external representation of eba and access to information outside the operations and accounting department. the restrictions
he may not be on the eba premises except upon the request of the chairperson and he ceases to have access to eba systems.
however the commission is a board member and is thereby entitled to contribute to discussions at board level.
he may not contribute to the work of the association for financial markets in europe on any topics treated by him in his last three years of service at the eba for a period of eighteen months.
the eba board of supervisors is the decision making body responsible for deciding on and enforcing post employment restrictions.
in this context the commission pleaded for the strictest possible approach towards mr farkas' departure taking into consideration the staff regulations.
also include three months' gardening leave' in which he ceases to exercise his role as appointing authority under the staff regulations and authorising officer under the financial regulation.
we have got to support all efforts aimed at removing punitive laws policies practices stigma and discrimination that undermine human rights.
the general deterioration of human rights of lgbti persons in uganda is very worrying including increasing violations of their social rights freedom of expression and gender equality rights.
old colonial laws have no place in the twenty first century world.
mr president in light of the alarming rise in attacks against lgbti people in uganda the resolution we have before us today is of great importance.
three gay men and one transgender woman have been murdered in uganda this year the latest being the lgbti activist brian wasswa who was attacked in his home on four october.
we call on the eu to enhance the defence and promotion of human rights in uganda notably through targeted support to ngos and full implementation of the eu guidelines on human rights defenders. we also call for all of us to form the strongest opposition to all forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
this resolution calls on our important cooperation with uganda.
words have consequences and the minister simon lokodo the so called ethics minister in uganda should be utterly ashamed of himself because what he is doing is trying to deflect from his government's own failings and using lgbti people as a scapegoat.
this is a struggle throughout the world not just in africa not just in asia this is a struggle everywhere and we share that struggle and we stand with you.
it's humiliating enough to know that there will be some in this house who don't even believe i should have the right to that marriage but at the very least i know that my life is not at risk when i walk the streets of the european union in most cases.
i want to address directly lgbti people in uganda and in every country in the world that suffers under discrimination laws and prohibition.
the problem is failing governments who are using you as a scapegoat. stay strong because you have the support in the solidarity of people here.
if adopted in its current form this new bill would represent a clear setback for human rights free speech and democracy in indonesia.
around twenty articles are considered highly alarming as they discriminate against women the lgbti community and religious minorities.