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Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Barry Andrews
Political group: Renew
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

Madam President, High Representative, I want to take this opportunity to call on you to appoint a Special Representative to the Syrian conflict. I acknowledge that there is a UN envoy, but we are not the UN. I acknowledge there’s no clear political path at the moment, but I believe that is the only way to a sustainable peace, because we cannot leave it to the Russians, for the fate of the people of Idlib. Tomorrow, as you know, the cross-border resolution delivering humanitarian aid to two million people comes to an end. It was vetoed by both Russia and China who have decided to cut off aid during a pandemic to two million people.  I worked for a humanitarian organisation in Syria for four years and I cannot express the shame I feel for the international community’s inability to protect the people of Idlib. For 10 years the UN has been unable to protect against forcible disappearances, chemical attacks and targeting of civilian infrastructure, and now it cannot even deliver aid. So ahead of next year’s 10-year anniversary, I call upon you today to appoint a Special Representative that can begin the process of developing relationships for a sustainable peace in Syria.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Isabella Tovaglieri
Political group: ID
Country: Spain
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, che l'Europa monitori il rispetto dei diritti umani nel mondo è sicuramente cosa meritoria. Dovrebbe però anche indagare, e soprattutto denunciare, forse con maggiore determinazione, le violazioni dei diritti fondamentali che avvengono in casa propria, sul proprio territorio comunitario. Violazioni che stanno aumentando in modo esponenziale in conseguenza delle massicce migrazioni dai paesi di tradizione e fede islamica, che portano con sé pratiche illegali, arcaiche e maschiliste. Mi riferisco alle mutilazioni genitali femminili (già 600 000 casi in Europa, di cui 70 000 solo in Germania), ai matrimoni precoci forzati e a pratiche come l'imposizione del velo, contro la quale si stanno battendo oggi a caro prezzo le donne in Iran – paese maglia nera dei diritti umani – nel silenzio assordante della comunità internazionale. Denunciare e reprimere questi fenomeni in casa nostra è certamente più scomodo che aggiornare le statistiche mondiali, però si tratta di un imperativo non più procrastinabile, che richiede all'Europa e ai singoli governi un coraggio politico che purtroppo, finora, è mancato.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Heidi Hautala
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Poland
Language: EN

Madam President, in the Annual Human Rights Report, the range of activities and initiatives in the area of business and human rights is certainly to be commended. Yet, rights which are not legally enforceable are rights in name only. After many years of hard work here in the European Parliament and in civil society, finally, we will see that a growing number of Member States and the Commission are increasingly accepting that mandatory legislation is needed for business and human rights.  At the end of April, there was a milestone event when the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, committed to a legislative initiative on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence obligations for companies operating in the EU area. The German Council Presidency now has committed itself to an EU action plan on business and human rights. This is indeed long overdue because the EU has been very diligent about its Member States adopting action plans, but as we say, at least in Finnish, the shoemaker’s children sometimes don’t have shoes. The EU still lacks this action plan and we only can welcome it.  We can also see that now would be a very timely moment for the EU to start to make a meaningful contribution in the international negotiations among the UN frame for business and human rights because we have started to act at home, so please ask for the mandate from the Member States to start these negotiations.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó
Political group: NI
Country: Portugal
Language: EN

Madam President, the EU is committed to the defence of human rights around the world. However, in order to be effective, the EU must have a moral authority that it doesn’t have. And it doesn’t have this because Europe tolerates, for example, arbitrary detentions of social and political leaders committed by Member States such as Spain. This is why its efforts are not credible to third countries. You mentioned Turkey. When one year ago the Turkish regime decided to remove Kurdish mayors from office – mayors democratically elected – its Interior Minister justified this with the precedent of the removal by Spain of Basque and Catalan elected pro—independence politicians who were removed without any trial.  Moreover, I have been unable to find in its report any explicit reference to the persecution of the Kurdish people, contrary to what happens in other reports on human rights, like the one from Human Rights Watch. Recover Europe’s moral authority, Mr Borrell. Dissidents from all around the world will be grateful.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Francisco José Millán Mon
Political group: PPE
Country: Spain
Language: ES

Señor presidente, señor alto representante, el respeto de los derechos humanos es una seña de identidad de la Unión Europea y de sus Estados miembros.  Nuestra política exterior lógicamente no puede desconocer esta dimensión. Por eso, animo al Servicio Europeo de Acción Exterior a continuar sus trabajos y sus informes para promover el respeto de los derechos humanos en el mundo. Además, quiero recordar que, en general, los países que respetan los derechos humanos y el Estado de Derecho son también los que respaldan un orden internacional basado en el Derecho internacional y en la paz, que es lo que los europeos deseamos.  Por otra parte, el Consejo de Asuntos Exteriores de diciembre del año pasado acordó iniciar los trabajos para establecer un régimen global de sanciones contra las violaciones de derechos humanos, tema este que también recuerda el documento de las prioridades de la Presidencia alemana, que ha empezado hace unos días.  Me gustaría conocer con más detalle qué objetivos persigue, el estado de estos trabajos... Desde luego, me parece imprescindible mejorar los mecanismos para el cumplimiento de las sanciones. No se puede repetir lo sucedido en Madrid el pasado mes de enero.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Bettina Vollath
Political group: S-D
Country: Austria
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin, Hoher Vertreter! In meiner Minute fokussiere ich auf die Türkei, denn sie bricht systematisch internationales Recht und destabilisiert die gesamte Region. Während wir uns hier beraten, hält die Türkei mehrere Regionen Nordsyriens besetzt, und dort verbliebene Kurdinnen, insbesondere religiöse Minderheiten wie die Jesidinnen, werden terrorisiert. Wir beraten hier, und die Türkei greift einseitig in den libyschen Bürgerkrieg ein und setzt damit eine Gewaltspirale in Gang. Wir beraten hier, und die Türkei droht offen den EU-Mitgliedstaaten Zypern und Griechenland. Europa sieht zu, wie ein Land mit innenpolitischen Problemen diese durch eine immer aggressivere Außenpolitik zu überspielen versucht, die Menschenrechte mit Füßen tritt und die Region immer weiter destabilisiert.  Für mich genauso wichtig: Die Menschenrechte, die wir von anderen einfordern, müssen wir auch selbst einhalten – Stichwort: unsere Außengrenzen. Erst dann können wir die Einhaltung von Menschenrechten auch glaubwürdig international einfordern.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Yana Toom
Political group: Renew
Country: Hungary
Language: EN

Madam President, I very much welcome this discussion, which once more shows that our Union is based on values. I very much agree with what has already been said by the majority of colleagues, but let me make another point.  The EU spoke on minority issues several times in 2019. During the Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly, the EU spoke with the special rapporteur on minority issues. At the Forum on Minority Issues, the EU took the floor on the topic of education, language and the human rights of minorities. There was a European Regional Forum on Minority Issues organised in this House. At all these meetings, it says in the annual report, the EU highlighted its policies on inclusive education, celebration of linguistic diversity and the rights of minorities.  But do we lead by the example we are trying to set? The special rapporteur has stressed that statelessness is a minority issue; it is one of his priorities. But have we discussed statelessness in the EU – like the hundreds of thousands of stateless persons in the Baltic States?  The UN also considered it a right of minorities to learn in their mother tongue. As minority schools are being closed across Europe, was this issue brought up? What I want to say is that our participation in various minority platforms is based on telling others what they’re doing wrong. Our message would be much more convincing if we were able to set a proper example ourselves.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Mislav Kolakušić
Political group: NI
Country: Greece
Language: HR

Poštovana predsjedavajuća, poštovani kolege, da bismo imali pravo docirati o stanju ljudskih prava izvan Europske unije, prvenstveno se moramo okrenuti sebi i vidjeti da se ta ista prava ne poštuju u Kataloniji, odnosno u Španjolskoj, da se vode politički progoni o kojima mi ovdje šutimo, mi do sada uopće nismo govorili u ovom Parlamentu o jednom tako bitnom pitanju.  Nadalje, imamo kršenje temeljnih ljudskih prava prilikom uvođenja karantena. Određene države to rade putem vlada, dok druge države poput Republike Hrvatske su prenijele sve ovlasti na stožere koji nemaju apsolutno nikakvog pravog utemeljenja da ograničavaju ljudima pravo na rad, pravo na liječenje i pravo na slobodu kretanja.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Maxette Pirbakas
Political group: ID
Country: Sweden
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, mes chers collègues, je tenais ce jour à marquer de mes mots l'histoire mémorielle des peuples européens. J'ai proposé au Président du Parlement européen une résolution qui tend à réconcilier le peuple européen sur notre histoire commune, notamment concernant les Outre-mer.  L'héritage des afro- et indo-descendants ayant subi l'esclavage, comme l'ensemble des esclavages passés et modernes ne doivent pas être oubliés. Il y va de la mémoire de l'Outre-mer que je représente ici au Parlement européen. Lutter contre l'esclavage passé basé sur la traite d'êtres humains, comme lutter contre la mise en esclavage moderne en dénonçant un modèle économique ultra-libéral qui tend à la pauvreté générale.  Comme le disait Martin Luther King, une injustice commise quelque part est une menace pour la justice dans le monde entier. Rendons hommage à la mémoire de nos esclaves et réconcilions-nous pour bâtir un avenir sans discrimination et retrouver des peuples européens libres et égaux.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Arba Kokalari
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Madam President, democracy is under attack, the rule of law is backsliding and individual rights are being undermined. We are seeing the rise of authoritarian regimes, like in China and Russia. When we say that the EU must act to protect human rights, that has to mean that we have to give the EU the right tools to do so. That means that we need to introduce a global human rights sanctions regime as soon as possible – because those who commit human rights abuses have to face sanctions. The EU has to protect human rights defenders that risk their lives for freedom. We need to make sure to remove the unanimity principle in the Council on human rights matters so that the EU’s voice on human rights can become stronger because if we don’t protect and act on human rights, who else will do?
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Marc Angel
Political group: S-D
Country: Luxembourg
Language: EN

Madam President, I congratulate the efforts of the European Commission and most Member States for their global promotion of gender equality and LGBTI rights. The European Commission must continue to enhance its efforts in promoting and defending these values, be through political action or financial support. Both are important.  This is now so crucial because we have to counter the discriminating and very well internationally organised anti-gender movement.  I also appreciate our multilateral approach and the leading role of the European Union international fora defending LGBTI rights and gender equality. However, leading role means leading example, otherwise we lose all credibility. I call on the European Commission, the Council and also to this high House to not only speak up but also take swift action when it comes to  the most recent backlashes to LGBTI rights in some of our Member States, namely the LGBTI-free zones in Poland, the discriminating legislation in Hungary against intersex and trans-persons. The Commission and Council must act and I say that we have to be coherent and stay credible when it comes to promoting human rights worldwide and encourage human rights defence.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Fabio Massimo Castaldo
Political group: NI
Country: France
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, stando proprio alle Sue parole, Alto rappresentante, nell'introduzione a questa relazione, la pandemia COVID ha cambiato, forse per sempre, il nostro mondo e le nostre società. Vorrei poter dire che quest'esperienza sia servita a rinnovare un sentimento di umanità e di compassione ma in molti casi l'emergenza è stata al contrario, in tante parti del mondo, utilizzata e strumentalizzata per rafforzare la repressione dei diritti umani, la censura e le discriminazioni. Dobbiamo essere orgogliosi di far parte di un'Istituzione che non deve avere timore di esprimersi in modo forte in difesa dei diritti umani, anche quando l'interlocutore è un importante partner commerciale o politico. È fondamentale, quindi, riaffermare con forza che l'UE è e continuerà a essere un faro nel buio, in prima fila nella lotta per il rispetto dei diritti umani e della democrazia, da un lato facendo sentire forte e chiara la propria voce in seno alle istituzioni internazionali e difendendo il multilateralismo, a partire dal pieno sostegno alla Corte penale internazionale, ancora una volta sotto inaccettabile attacco anche da parte degli Stati Uniti. Dall'altro, è essenziale che l'Unione mobiliti tutti gli strumenti a propria disposizione contro i grandi violatori: come ha fatto il Regno Unito, l'UE deve dare seguito agli impegni presi e adottare quanto prima un regime globale di sanzioni per i diritti umani.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Seán Kelly
Political group: PPE
Country: Greece
Language: GA

A Uachtaráin, fáiltím roimh an tuarascáil seo agus ba mhaith liom an tArdionadaí a mholadh as ucht na dea-oibre agus na ceannaireachta atá á dtaispeáint aige san áit thábhachtach seo. Agus freisin, tá moladh ag dul do Eamon Gilmore, Iar-Thánaiste na hÉireann atá ina Ionadaí Speisialta do na Náisiún Aontaithe ó Fheabhra na bliana seo caite. Tá géarghá leis an dea-obair seo mar a fheicimid sna díospóireachtaí éigeandála a bhíonn againn anseo sa Pharlaimint. Tá éagóir á déanamh ar a lán daoine timpeall an domhain, go háirithe daoine atá ag seasamh suas do na daoine atá i mbaol; iriseoirí, na meáin i gcoitinne, agus mar sin de. Féach ar cad atá ag tarlú do mhná timpeall an domhain uilig; is rud scannalach é. Agus féachaimid ar an tSín, teacht anuas ar dhaoine agus leatrom á dhéanamh ar dhaoine de bharr a reiligiún. Caithfimid seasamh suas do na daoine seo mar go minic is sinne an t-aon ghuth láidir cumhachtach atá acu.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Carlos Zorrinho
Political group: S-D
Language: PT

Senhor Alto Representante, o relatório sobre os direitos humanos e a democracia que hoje temos oportunidade de analisar tem muito de premonitório. A abordagem integrada das situações no terreno, incluindo a elaboração de estratégias e referenciais de ação, a aposta no diálogo multilateral, revelou-se ainda mais adequada, face às fraturas sanitárias, económicas, sociais e políticas expostas pela pandemia.  Não podemos hesitar face à progressão do autoritarismo e do populismo no mundo, ao fechamento de fronteiras, ao aumento da intolerância e à asfixia das liberdades.  O caminho da União Europeia tem que ser, ainda mais, o caminho da promoção dos direitos humanos e do diálogo multilateral. Só tenho um minuto, Sr. Alto Representante, por isso, queria focar a situação que se vive, em concreto, em Moçambique, na província de Cabo Delgado. É uma situação em que as salvaguardas dos direitos humanos estão em enorme risco, em resultado de uma conjunção de frágil governança, pressões resultantes da exploração de novas jazidas de gás, reduzidas condições socioeconómicas e sinais crescentes de intolerância religiosa.  É um caso em que uma abordagem humanista e multilateral pode fazer toda a diferença e ganhar um cunho de exemplaridade na nossa opção e posicionamento no mundo. É preciso ação europeia, Sr. Alto Representante.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Javi López
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, muchas gracias, alto representante, por su informe y por su trabajo. Para nosotros la situación de derechos humanos en el mundo es no solo preocupante, sino una señal del deterioro de algunas de las grandes tendencias globales que vemos, de nuestro sistema multilateral y de los mecanismos de protección en materia de derechos humanos, del cuestionamiento del Derecho internacional y del Derecho humanitario y de la aparición, cada vez más común, de gobernantes que creen que, en nombre de la mayoría y de la democracia, también se pueden violentar los derechos de aquellos que no les votan. Hablan también en su informe de algunos grupos y del cuestionamiento y la violación sistemática de los derechos de la infancia o de las mujeres, del cuestionamiento de los derechos de los migrantes y las personas vulnerables, también dentro de nuestras fronteras. Pero quiero acabar haciendo referencia a América Latina y la preocupante aparición, cada vez más, de asesinatos y violaciones de los derechos humanos de líderes indígenas, líderes de los defensores de derechos humanos y líderes de los defensores del territorio y el medio ambiente. Ese también es un reto que atañe a la Unión Europea y esperamos trabajar juntos.
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Lefteris Christoforou
Political group: PPE
Country: Romania
Language: EL

Είμαι περήφανος και ευτυχής γιατί ανήκω στο Ευρωπαϊκό Λαϊκό Κόμμα, που υιοθετεί αυτή τη θέση και στηρίζει ανεπιφύλακτα τις θέσεις υπέρ της Κύπρου και της Ελλάδας. Ταυτόχρονα υιοθετώ τη θέση του ηγέτη του Ευρωπαϊκού Λαϊκού Κόμματος, Manfred Weber, ότι, αν η Τουρκία συνεχίσει σε αυτή τη γραμμή, πρέπει να ανασταλεί η Τελωνειακή Ένωση. Όμως και εμείς ως Ευρωκοινοβούλιο οφείλουμε να περικόψουμε τα ενταξιακά κονδύλια της Τουρκίας και να εξαιρέσουμε την Τουρκία από το πολυετές δημοσιονομικό πλαίσιο, γιατί μόνο έτσι η Τουρκία μπορεί να κατανοήσει το πρόβλημα που δημιουργεί στην Κύπρο και στην Ελλάδα. Ισχυρή Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, δυνατή, με αλληλεγγύη σημαίνει ...
Debate: The  Human Rights Annual report - Stability and Security in the Mediterranean and the negative role of Turkey - Situation in Belarus
Date: THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2020
Speaker: Nacho Sánchez Amor
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: ES

¿Por qué digo esta obviedad? Porque hay un evidente interés de Turquía en compartimentalizar la relación, creando unas piezas inconexas e inarticuladas. A Turquía le hemos ofrecido lo máximo, que es ser miembro de nuestro club —aunque a veces oyéndoles parezca un castigo—, y el marco, por tanto, de la relación tiene que ser la de que es un país candidato. Eso quiere decir un progresivo alineamiento de Turquía con todos los estándares de la Unión Europea.  La situación de la relación es mala —usted lo ha reconocido el lunes— porque hay una falta de confianza, un sustrato de falta de confianza que afecta a todos los ámbitos de la relación.  La exención está congelada, con un brutal deterioro de los derechos humanos, en materia de liberalización de visas.  Y hay que decirlo: Turquía no ha cumplido los marcos que tiene que cumplir para acceder; respecto a la Unión Aduanera, nos peleamos en la Organización Mundial de Comercio; en migraciones recibimos una infundada acusación de no estar cumpliendo, cuando la opinión pública europea piensa precisamente lo contrario; y en política exterior, esta idea de la asertividad está siendo —yo creo— mal utilizada.  Con Grecia y Chipre, nosotros no podemos ser solidarios porque somos Grecia y Chipre y, por tanto, no podemos actuar como un simple mediador... (