What Evin spoke about.

5 Oct

2021

SV Speech

Implementation report on the EU Trust Funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Friends, I am proud that we are the world's largest donor for a better world, but in an increasingly turbulent world, we need to increase and improve the toolbox for us to become empowered and for people to be able to live a good life where they are. An important tool is humanitarian aid. In recent years, unfortunately, we have gone from improvements globally …

16 Sep

2021

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The situation in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

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Madam President, Madam Commissioner, colleagues, we see a worsening situation for LGBTIQ+ people in many parts of the world. It is alarming. They are even being deprived of their human rights when seeking refuge. The responsibility to protect vulnerable groups is enriched in the mandate of all humanitarian interventions. In March 2021 Chriton Atuhwera, an activist and refugee from Uganda, was kill…

15 Sep

2021

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Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Colleagues! There's a pandemic that's been going on longer than anyone else. Men's violence against women. The unwillingness of society to fight it has led to women and girls paying the ultimate price: his life. If we listen carefully enough, we can hear all the women and girls screaming for our help. For too long, society has turned its back on them. Instead of …

15 Sep

2021

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Media freedom and further deterioration of the Rule of law in Poland (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The EU is at a crossroads: to look forward to a modern and democratic future or back to the past, after a time when democracy shines with its absence. The right-wing conservative government in Poland is clear about where it stands: Medieval ideas of misogyny, LGBTQ hostility, lack of media freedom, politicization of the judiciary. These are no longer just dreams …

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Lebanon (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Lebanon is currently in one of the world's, one of the, worst economic crises of the century. The lack of policy for ordinary people through socio-economic improvements was evident when I was in Beirut last week, together with my Socialist colleagues. Lack of supplies such as food, clean water and basic medicines is the everyday life of the Lebanese people. Th…

8 Jul

2021

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The death penalty in Saudi Arabia, notably the cases of Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish and Abdullah al-Howaiti

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Mr President, thank you very much. In a country where human rights are still a dream and arbitrary imprisonment is a reality, the situation for children and young people becomes even more alarming. Saudi Arabia is a country that has clearly shown how signatures on international commitments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child are not enough. With commitments comes the obligation to im…

8 Jul

2021

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Hong Kong, notably the case of Apple Daily

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Mr President, thank you very much. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press has always been and will always be a threat to dictatorship and oppressive regimes. This is where the attacks are most intense, even in Hong Kong. whereas according to Reporters Without Borders’ 2021 Press Freedom Index, the Communist dictatorship in China continues to lead the league in the number of imprisoned pres…

8 Jul

2021

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The case of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran

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Madam President, thank you very much. Colleagues. When fundamentalism and extremism rule, democracy, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, equality and dissidents become the enemy. The Iranian regime has repeatedly demonstrated this. Iran has the highest number of executions per capita in the world. Swedish-Iranian Ahmadreza Djalali and other prisoners of conscience must be released immedia…

6 Jul

2021

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Situation in Tigray, Ethiopia (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, 2019 – a country going towards the right direction. 2020 and still in 2021 – a country with negative development. It is enough. All the people of Ethiopia deserve democracy and equality now. The spiral of war and conflict must end. Tigray and other regions are suffering from violence and human rights violations, regional and ethnic tensions. There needs to be an independent investiga…

6 Jul

2021

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EU global human rights sanctions regime (EU Magnitsky Act) (debate)

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Madam President, the EU global human rights mechanism regime was adopted just six months ago, and it is without a doubt one of the most forceful tools in defence of respect for human rights. It is hard on people and companies responsible for human rights violation, but spares innocent citizens that might otherwise have been hit by other kinds of sanctions. In these six months, the mechanism has al…

6 Jul

2021

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Foreign interference in democratic processes (debate)

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Madam President, democracy is under attack right now, both by internal forces in our Union as well as by foreign forces, and both offline and online. Offline we see Erdoğan and Turkish authorities spreading their tentacles into our Union in their aim to pursue dissidents, many times Kurdish dissidents. And Xi Jinping and Chinese authorities send threatening emails to EU journalists like the freela…