What Miguel spoke about.

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Apr

2024

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The proposed repeal of the law banning female genital mutilation in The Gambia

Mr President, sexual and reproductive rights are fundamental human rights. In this sense, any rule that entails a setback in these rights must be considered as an attack on human rights. I would like to recall that the association agreements of the European Union include human rights clauses that allow the suspension of such a relationship in case of violation of these clauses. But, unfortunately,…

13

Mar

2024

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

Mr President, we are witnessing a genuine genocide in the 21st century. A televised genocide in which Israel not only kills with bombs, but also with hunger. Hunger as a real weapon of war. The attack on the humanitarian convoy by Israel – which cost more than 100 deaths and 800 wounded – was not a mistake, but a deliberate strategy to prevent the distribution of humanitarian aid, to end the possi…

12

Mar

2024

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State of play of the corporate sustainability due diligence directive (debate)

Madam President, the truth is that the pandemic taught us many important lessons. One of them is that when there is political will, many things can be done that, theoretically, they told us could not be done, such as suspending the neoliberal corset of the Stability and Growth Pact. Putting human rights above the interests of corporate power is also something that can be done as long as there is p…

27

Feb

2024

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2023 (debate)

Madam President, in our view it is inconceivable that a report on the global human rights situation should ignore the genocide in Gaza. It is hypocritical that the report makes general condemnations against authoritarian countries attacking the United Nations system and does not once mention Israel, responsible for the murder of at least 158 UNRWA officials and the constant violation of internatio…

27

Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

Madam President, genocide, occupation, ethnic cleansing. Israel is carrying out a new Nakba with the complicity of European governments. Last night I returned from the Rafah border crossing. Just a few metres away, more than one million people were crowded and, according to international organisations, need to receive 600 trucks of humanitarian aid a day. How many does Israel let through? Five, la…

7

Feb

2024

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Recent attacks on Christmas Eve in Plateau State in Nigeria

Mr. President, the truth is that we have said it many times: Nigeria is a magnificent example of a country that should be rich, but where more than half of its population lives in poverty. All this is, of course, the responsibility of his Government, but not only of him. It is also true of neocolonial policies and multinational companies that plunder the territory. The historical conflict in the P…

7

Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

Madam President, the genocide being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people, with the complicity of the European Union and the United States, cannot under any circumstances be used as a pretext for hate speech to stir up anti-Semitism again. Any anti-Semitic discourse must be combated, wherever it occurs and practiced by those who practice it. But it is also essential not to fall into t…

6

Feb

2024

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State of play of the implementation of the Global Gateway and its governance two years after its launch (debate)

Mr Bütikofer, I hope that next time, instead of talking to my colleague Helmut Scholz, I will be able to hear my speech. The truth is that green colonialism is a real problem, because we often talk about the energy transition. But for electric cars to exist in Brussels and Berlin, uranium mines are needed in Peru, Ecuador or Bolivia. That's what we're talking about with extractivism and green colo…

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Feb

2024

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State of play of the implementation of the Global Gateway and its governance two years after its launch (debate)

Mr. President, two years of Global Gateway. Two years of opacity and secrecy. Two years raising multimillion-dollar investments of public money again for private multinationals. Two years reinforcing impunity and abuses of neo-extractivist corporate power painted green. Two years of announcing and creating projects to control migration flows in Africa, to secure the supply of raw materials in the …

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Jan

2024

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The threat of famine following the spread of conflict in Sudan

– Madam President, the truth is that there are wars that are not of the first division and victims that do not appear on television. Unfortunately, this is the case in Sudan. The figures speak for themselves: 7.5 million people forcibly displaced in what is the world's largest displacement crisis and 18 million people at risk of famine. This horror has been met with irresponsible diplomacy, ineffe…

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Jan

2024

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State of emergency in Ecuador (debate)

Mr. President, we all know that the problem of violence and drug trafficking is not new in Ecuador. Ecuadorian elites have long been enriching themselves with a mafia economy. Now Noboa has declared war on drugs, a war reference whose disastrous consequences on the continent we all know. If not, tell your neighbor Colombia. We want to take advantage of this crisis to instill fear with a kind of do…

13

Dec

2023

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The Maasai Communities in Tanzania

Madam President, the Tanzanian authorities have been trying for years to evict the Maasai communities from their ancestral lands. They justify it, supposedly, by the defense of the conservation of the area near the Serengeti, ignoring that these communities have been living together in total harmony with nature for hundreds of years. What is really behind these displacements is the construction of…

13

Dec

2023

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One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

Mr President, a year after one of the biggest cases of corruption in the European institutions broke out, we know that it was allegedly Morocco that created this mafia plot to buy Members with the idea of conditioning the decisions of this Parliament and the European institutions. Did the Moroccan regime interfere when we voted on a trade agreement that our own courts have declared illegal for hav…

13

Dec

2023

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Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, I am writing to you as rotating President of the Council: enough of hypocrisy. The European Union and our governments are complicit in the massacre being committed by Israel against Palestine. Pretty words are useless as we continue to buy and sell weapons to Israel. To stop this authentic ethnic cleansing, actions are necessary that force the State of Israel to a ce…

12

Dec

2023

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Attempt of coup d’Etat in Guatemala (debate)

Mr President, three months ago we warned in this House of the real danger of a coup d'état in Guatemala. The pact of the corrupt does not want their privileges to be questioned. For this reason, the Prosecutor's Office and the Public Prosecutor's Office criminalize the student movement and journalists like Mr. Zamora, who investigate their corruptions, corruptions of institutions totally co-opted …

12

Dec

2023

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Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

Mr President, the truth is that we are witnessing a global race for control of resources in a context of ecological emergency. The material foundations of the green transition are in dispute, which generates a real world extractivist fever. The European Union fills its mouth with its Green Deal, but for there to be electric cars in Europe it is necessary to increase mining pressure in the global s…

11

Dec

2023

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Order of business

Madam President, it is just one year since one of the biggest scandals that have dotted the European institutions came to light, which although it began under the name of Qatargate, we have subsequently known, from the information that has come out in the press, that it would be fair to call it Moroccogate: Morocco allegedly organised a purchasing network of Members of the European Parliament to i…

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Nov

2023

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The unlawful detention of President Mohamed Bazoum in Niger

Madam President, in recent years in Africa we are witnessing the growth of a deep anti-colonial European sentiment, especially anti-French. This situation is being used in some countries such as Niger as an alibi to justify coups d'état in the region. We cannot ignore the role that some multinationals and European powers are playing in the Sahel region, both in the plundering of their raw material…

13

Sep

2023

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Guatemala: the situation after the elections, the rule of law and judicial independence

Madam President, the situation in Guatemala is by no means new. It is the result of institutional co-option of the state by a corrupt extreme right that has long hijacked democracy in the country. Last night, the Public Prosecutor's Office has shown that it has no limits, requisitioning ballot boxes with votes from the first round, even against the Guatemalan Electoral Law itself. It cannot be for…

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Sep

2023

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Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

Mr President, the Commission's green transition is a beautiful alibi to justify a new extractivist and neocolonial agenda in the midst of a dispute over scarce resources. A real transition goes through a fair model not only in the north, but also in the south, by changing the production model, by closing the door to any type of underwater mining, by defending sensitive environmental areas such as …

12

Jul

2023

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India, the situation in Manipur

Mr President, ethnic and religious minorities in India are systematically discriminated against, stigmatised and persecuted by Modi's far right. The same goes for those who criticize the government: There are dozens of human rights defenders in prison, even if this Parliament does not mention them. What happens in Manipur is also the result of the xenophobic policies of the Indian Government, the …

14

Jun

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Sudan, in particular the death of children trapped by fighting

Madam President, in 2019 the Sudanese people overthrew the dictator and demanded democracy, but their mobilizations and dreams were betrayed. Today, again, we are witnessing a war that, unfortunately, can lead to a humanitarian catastrophe on the African continent and, meanwhile, the European Union remains impassive, as if the situation were not with it, as if our border necropolitics had nothing …

14

Jun

2023

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Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

Madam President, the climate emergency exists now and its consequences are already being experienced today, especially in the Global South, but not only. The year 2030 is too late because today we are too late. The acceleration of the agenda for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals proposed in this report is welcome, but climate change is not solved, ladies and gentlemen, with b…

13

Jun

2023

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr. President, Nicaragua continues the repression, persecution and detention of people, activists and even historic Sandinista militants, such as the recent case of Oscar René Vargas. We know that the extreme right uses the situation in Nicaragua to attack the Latin American left as a whole. We have had a good example with what VOX MP Hermann Tertsch has done. Let's not make it easy for him. It is…

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May

2023

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Media freedom and freedom of expression in Algeria, the case of journalist Ihsane El-Kadi

Mr President, the truth is that since 2019, when the Hirak protests broke out, we have seen a progressive deterioration of press freedom in Algeria. Since then, at least twelve journalists have been arrested and several media outlets have been shut down. Attacks on the press and freedom of expression are not a problem unique to Algeria, but are part of a regional reality, as we have pointed out in…