What Eleonora spoke about.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is not just the resolution on Cyprus that I ask you to support. This is the story behind the resolution. It is the women, the girls, the ones who left, the ones who are still here, the ones we met a year ago on our mission, the ones who told us the darkest events of violence, despair, humiliation and abuse · those who in 1974 were still underage girls, pre

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen: Get ready with me to go to school. So they start their day, today, children 10 and 12 years old, presenting to thousands of strangers the beauty routine, the styling of clothes, the retinol they use, the makeup they consider suitable to go to school, and all this with our tolerance. For God's sake. We allow our children to lose their innocence,

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, sooner or later, lies are bad, we will all be able to take care of a person we love and at some point we may all need care. That is why this dossier is not only for professional carers, nor only for those who care silently in their own home. It's about each of us. Yet, as you have seen and heard all too often, care remains invisible. It is taken fo

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak about this dossier in as simple and humane terms as possible, because this dossier has been created by Rosa Estaràs Ferragut and myself with great care for all those who are called, chosen or led to care professionally or informally. And believe me, there are many: 6.2 million European citizens are professionally active in

Madam President, Commissioner, in my own country, Greece, I have travelled to many places in the province, in our villages, in our islands, everywhere. There, then, I have met incredible women of all ages, with vision, strength and stubbornness. Women who do not want to leave, want to stay in their place, to create and offer, to keep their communities alive, to strengthen the local economy, to hig

Thank you, Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. I want you to imagine a woman still, with her body frozen and someone raping every cell, mental and physical. She wants to scream, but her mouth doesn't make a sound. He doesn't scream, he doesn't ring, he doesn't run. Not because he consents, but because he is paralyzed by fear. What some still ask why science hasn't responded to is

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, homosexuality is not a disease and conversion practices are not cures. Yet, even today, there are people – many times among them minor children – who are subject to such practices. Practices based on fear, guilt, rejection, not science. There is not the slightest scientific evidence that these practices, even if there is consensu

Madam President, I would like to address all those who consider Women's Day to be graphic. To those who are almost tired of hearing about our problems and about women's rights. People were talking on the phone and laughing while Jackie Fox was talking. So I tell you that your attitude is not towards us women. It is your attitude towards the mother who gave birth to you and raised you· your attitud

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, millions of women have seen themselves naked online, without ever having undressed and without ever having been able to download the content from the platforms. Between them and me. Simple photos, from Instagram, dressed, everyday, stripped bare with a click of algorithms, without permission, without shame, without consent, without consequences. This is not

Madam President, violence against women remains one of the most persistent pathologies. But let's talk openly. Violence is not just murder and physical abuse. Violence is also emotional abuse, constant demotion, internalized misogyny, hate speech. In all this there are not only male perpetrators and female victims. There are men and women who consciously or unconsciously reproduce stereotypes that

Madam President, Commissioner, there are many who believe that the issue of equality has been settled. Let's go see if that's the case. Pay gap: women receive 12% lower pay and 37% lower pensions than men. Medicine and health: clinical structures and drug studies are primarily conducted on a male sample, with the result that women are often misdiagnosed and, in some cases, not at all. Gender-based

Madam President, let's talk a little bit about surrogacy: not for her pure form, that is, when a woman becomes a bearer of hope through the supreme act of altruism, but for the other, the darker side of surrogacy, that is, when need becomes a commodity; where vulnerable women are used as coercive means of reproduction; When women promote the process of surrogacy on social networks as a trendy prof

Mr President, combating gender-based violence, reproductive rights, equality at work, in education, in health: all are contemporary issues and important priorities of the Women's Rights Roadmap. But do you know what the most common question women get today? Whether work is combined with motherhood. Do you know what the correct answer to this question is? It doesn't exist. No matter what the woman

Mr President, Commissioner, 31 August, Afghanistan: 6.2 Richter and over 6 000 dead and wounded – most of them women and girls, who die because they are forbidden to be helped. In Afghanistan, where underage girls have been blackmailed into marriages since the age of 9, women are banned from speaking in public places, singing, seeing with both eyes, and studying. I will not ask where the activists

Madam President, Commissioner, our elderly are not the past. It is the living link that connects us to history and our values. They are the ones who set up the Europe of peace, solidarity, human dignity through wars, crises and hardships. They carry the memory, wisdom and values on which our European edifice was built. That is why today, more than ever, Europe must stand by them in practice, with

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, none of us dream of our old age in an old-age care facility. No one wishes to spend the last years of their life behind the closed doors of an institution. We all want to grow old where we blossomed, where we created, loved and were loved. In our home, in our neighborhood, among people who know us by our first name. Deinstitutionalization is not

Madam President, Commissioner, 'why now?' This is the question that victims of sexual abuse are asked when they decide to talk about their trauma, even years after experiencing it. At last, we have the opportunity to put an end to this targeting of victims. It is important to vote on the Directive on the protection of children - victims of abuse. It opens the frame of sexual crimes for the interne

Mr President, Commissioner, it is finally time to talk about mental health in the workplace. Since the first days in the European Parliament, I have sought to find out what Europe has done about bullying at work. I saw great initiatives. But they were all meant to empower the victim of workplace bullying, not to contain the bully. As if there is no way to deal with the problem. The problem, of cou

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, among other things, the Union of Skills has two major objectives: make Europe as competitive and inclusive as possible. Education and vocational training are not only learning and skilling tools of the future for a sophisticated and competitive workforce. They are also tools of empowerment, independence and equality for people with disabilities.