What María Soraya spoke about.

Madam President, Mr Borrell, I would like to thank you for your work and also for the consistency and courage of your voice. Thank goodness that, at least in these dark moments, we have counted on his voice. There is a plausible ongoing genocide, according to the International Criminal Court, that Israel's military is committing, possibly in Gaza. Since that declaration, all signatories to the Con

Mr President, there is absolutely nothing to justify the European Union not having a directive to combat gender-based violence when, according to the latest data from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 50 women and girls are killed every week in European territory as victims of this scourge. That is why it is absolutely important that we take this directive forward tomorrow. We have

Madam President, indeed, the first report on the EU’s climate resilience is very clear: Europe is not prepared for the rapid increase in climate risks. We are the continent of the world that is warming the most, which affects our energy system, our food system, our ecosystems, our water resources, the health and future of our citizens and even the stability of the financial system. Many of these r

Mr President, International Labour Organisation Convention No 190 recognises the universal right to a world of work free from violence. A right that is still a mirage in the European Union, since a third of women who have suffered sexual harassment and violence have suffered them in their workplace. However, to date, only seven Member States have ratified this Convention. This is unacceptable. To

Mr President, I believe that, for the most part, there is broad agreement in this House to give consent to a good agreement which, rather than a trade agreement, is indeed a political cooperation agreement. We have heard here from the extreme right and the extreme left exactly the same arguments of an identity nationalism that, of course, supports a populism that is contrary to the shared values o

Mr President, today marks a milestone with the approval and consent of the European Parliament of the new Advanced Framework Agreement between the European Union and Chile. It will be the first free trade agreement with Latin America approved during this mandate. This agreement is a true example of the realization of our commitment to strengthen political, commercial and social ties with the regio

Mr President, Commissioner, I was at the Rafah border crossing. What we could see and hear there was the smell and horror of genocide. If it were not, a new word would have to be invented to describe what was happening there, but the International Court of Justice had said that it was plausible that genocide was being committed and the precautionary measures imposed on Israel were legally binding.

Mr. President, 6 containers of the vessel Toconao, 1,050 bags, each with 25 kilos of pellets. This is an environmental tragedy, but it is not an isolated case: We know that between 52 000 and 184 000 tonnes of pellets are dumped into the environment in the European Union every year. That is why, Commissioner, it is absolutely necessary for the pellet regulation to include the maritime transport of

– Madam President, the proportions of the humanitarian situation in Sudan are dramatic and alarming. That is why today, in this resolution, we recall that more than 18 million people are food insecure in Sudan and, of them, 5 million are in a situation of alarm. More than 7.5 million people have been forced to flee their homes from violence and conflict. We are facing the world's largest forced ch

Madam President, more than seven million children are deprived of their liberty in the world. Many of them are held in adult centres, where they are subjected to all kinds of risks and abuses. More and more children stop in the world, younger and longer. To deprive a child of liberty is to deprive him of his childhood, it is to subject him to structural violence. This clearly violates the Internat

Mr. President, the elections in Guatemala were flawless, they were clean. Citizens were able to freely and democratically manifest their will at the polls. This was verified by the European Union observation mission and other international observation missions and, most importantly, by the Guatemalan institution responsible for these elections, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, whose members are now

Mr President, indeed, one more year we are meeting here to talk about a terrible drama, which is violence against women and girls in the world and a cruel reality in our space in the European Union. According to the latest data we have, 50 women are killed every week in the European Union. We knew we needed a directive to fight gender-based violence. Today I honestly thought that on this lectern a

Mr President, today there is a glimmer of hope with the release of Israeli hostages and a four-day ceasefire. But we all know that this is clearly insufficient. What is happening in Gaza is terrible: Gaza today is a grave in which more than 16,000 bodies lie, and I want to say that we are not doing everything we must to prevent this humanitarian catastrophe. The European Union would not allow any

Mr President, today marks 601 days since the start of Putin's criminal war in Ukraine and the situation of Ukrainian refugees cannot be forgotten. In particular, the reality experienced by refugee women and girls. As we know, displacement increases the risks to them. One in twenty-two Ukrainian refugee women has been victims of sexual harassment, one in fifty of physical violence. And the data we

Mr. President, death, torture and abuse are the faces of this Taliban regime. Since taking power, there have been more than 800 extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment documented by the United Nations. Not to mention the living hell in which Afghan women and girls subjected to the cruelest gender apartheid known in the world live. In the face of this suffering, w

Madam President, the players of the Spanish national football team have had to win a World Cup for the world to hear them. They had raised their voices many times because they had been living for years in a situation of discrimination, of vexatious treatment contrary to the professional dignity of sport and also personal. Therefore, what was seen in the celebration of the World Cup was not an isol

Madam President, what is happening in Guatemala is the illicit and abusive use that the Public Ministry and some members of the judiciary are making, using judicial measures, to annul the electoral result freely manifested by Guatemalan citizens. I was also in the elections in Guatemala and had the opportunity to observe how the candidate and today elected president, whom I congratulate, Bernardo

Mr President, our first words today are of solidarity with the victims of these disasters. Morocco, Libya, Europe (Greece...). The summer of 2023 has been a season of record temperature increases, the hottest summer on a global scale. The Mediterranean Sea reaches its highest temperature ever recorded, 28.71 °C, and Greece's DANA has caused more water to fall in two days than in the last three yea

Madam President, today we are presenting this report, which is absolutely necessary in order to deepen relations between the European Union and the Palestinian Authority. It makes recommendations to the Palestinian Authority to strengthen democracy, respect human rights, fight corruption and immediately hold elections. But we do so in the context of a military occupation, living in Palestine, whic

Mr President, outside this House, the nature restoration law has a lot of support. The entire scientific community says it's necessary. Like large companies, renewable energy companies, our citizens, young people, the Committee of the Regions, mayors, presidents of regions and the Council, the majority of the Council. So, the problem is here, it's in this House. There are no arguments to oppose th

Mr President, it will be two years since we adopted the last sanctions against the Ortega Murillo regime. And in these two years things have only worsened dramatically, as the first report of the Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua points out. A systematic and widespread cruelty that can constitute crimes against humanity. It has already been said, more than 316 people, political opponen

Mr President, the vote on this directive on corporate sustainability due diligence is an unprecedented moment, because it lays down binding obligations and has a scope that is unparalleled at the global level. I, today, would like to call on all Members to support this directive and to vote against the amendments. That they support it, because it is a step forward towards honesty and coherence of

Mr. President, how to imagine greater horror in a country that is the country with the highest number of executions of women, torture and murder in the world. Yes, an action unprecedented in its magnitude and nature; the most criminal attack on girls and students we have ever known: massive poisoning. And Iran's health minister indicated on February 26 that it is a mild poison. We cannot rely on a

Madam President, frankly, I cannot believe that neither the Council nor the Commission condemned what happened yesterday here in the European Union: An activist was convicted for the first time in decades in Europe for helping a woman exercise her right to abortion. It's unbearable, Commissioner. "They want to silence us, make us invisible, frighten us so that we leave our activity": These are Jus

Madam President, Simone de Beauvoir said that a political, economic or religious crisis was enough for women's rights to be questioned again and that they could never be taken for granted. Unfortunately, he was right. Today we realize: in so many places, in Iran, Afghanistan, the United States, and here, within our borders, in Poland, where yesterday a woman activist was condemned precisely for he