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Abir AL-SAHLANI

MEP · Sweden

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Speeches updated 19 days ago

All Speeches

139

Since July 1, 2024

Time at the Floor

3.3h

≈ 199 min

Average speech length

1:30 min

≈ 1.5 min · Rank 227/690

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11 Feb

2025

EN Speech

Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, representative of the Council, dear colleagues, President Trump says that he is committed to buying and owning the Gaza Strip. He says that the Palestinians can get much better housing in neighbouring countries. Wow. I did not know, actually, that the conflict in Israel and Palestine was about better housing. And you know what? Surprisingly enough, Prime Minister Netany…

10 Feb

2025

SV Answer

Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

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Thank you, colleague, for your question. Are you aware of the fact that the vast majority of young people who are now in the criminal gangs were born and raised in Sweden? They have gone to Swedish preschool, they have gone to Swedish school. How can you make the connection to immigration? They are a Swedish product, nothing more. It is the Swedish failure that we need to talk about, not about mig…

10 Feb

2025

SV Speech

Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Sweden is shaken by the brutal gang violence. Children acting as drug couriers, teenagers acting as torpedoes and greedy gang leaders whose ruthlessness and brutality have no borders and who control their illegal activities outside Sweden's borders. This is certainly a European problem. From 1 January to today, there have been 33 detonations and …

10 Feb

2025

SV Speech

Situation in Sweden in the midst of the recent mass shooting in Örebro (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. My Sweden is in mourning and in shock. Last week was the worst mass shooting in Swedish history. Ten people were killed. A teacher, whose dream was to help others achieve their dreams. A mother, who never came home to her four children, and a personal assistant, who was loved and who was getting married this summer. The common denominator between them is th…

22 Jan

2025

EN Speech

Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, in 1991 I was fifteen years old, and my mother made the non-choice to send me with a smuggler to Europe because it was so expensive for us both to come to Europe. There were no legal pathways. She could not come here to work, though she has a master's degree in economics. My father was imprisoned in Abu Ghraib in Iraq for eleven years because he and my mu…

21 Jan

2025

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Humanitarian crisis in Sudan (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Commissioner, dear colleagues, the ongoing violence in Sudan and senseless war has gripped the nation and its people by suffering, displacement and fear. The status quo for almost two years now has been that of utter devastation and no one is safe. People are slaughtered on a daily basis, facing famine on a daily basis, fleeing on a daily basis. Women, men, children, mutilated, ra…

20 Jan

2025

EN Speech

Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

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Mr President, for 470 days, the laughter of the children on the streets of Gaza have been replaced by bombs. Netanyahu has mass murdered over 40 000 Palestinians, leading to an arrest warrant by the ICC. But now we have a ceasefire that is very much welcome, leading to silencing the weapons – loved ones, both hostages and detainees coming home to their families. This ceasefire must become a sustai…

20 Jan

2025

EN Question

Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

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I have two questions: you said that there are over 1 000 Palestinian criminals. Are you aware that these people are arbitrarily detained without a trial? There is no proof of being tried and there are several of them who are under the age of 18 who are now being finally released. My second question is, would you condemn the Knesset members who are saying that Palestinians are animals and do not de…

19 Dec

2024

EN Speech

Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

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Mr President, Madam Commissioner, here comes another type of feminist, that is a characteristic apparently. End all forms of discrimination against women, eliminate all violence against women in private life and in public life. Stop practices like child marriage and female genital mutilation. Women's full participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels in society. Universal acce…

19 Dec

2024

SV Speech

Need to update the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your We are certainly making progress on the rights of people with disabilities. But is that enough? That is the question. The figures speak for themselves very clearly. Over-representation in unemployment, over-representation in unfinished education, exposure to violence and crime and, not least, de-prioritisation in health care. We saw this during t…

17 Dec

2024

EN Speech

Situation of female politicians in EU candidate and neighbouring countries facing harassment and cyber violence (debate)

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Mr President, dear Commissioner, as a woman working on gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, I am too aware that the political environment can be very toxic, full of harassment and hate. Today I met Georgian parliamentarian who is also attending the debate tonight, Ana Natsvlishvili. She spoke to me about the horrifying reality of being a woman in politics in Georgia since th…

17 Dec

2024

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Use of rape as weapon of war, in particular in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan (debate)

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Madam President, Madam High Representative, dear colleagues, I would like to ask you, Madam High Representative, to actually initiate a global initiative against weaponising of rape as a tool of war against women. Let us be taking the lead on this issue, because we all know the fact that women in Sudan are raped by different militias. We know that as a fact – we know that they are treated with no …

28 Nov

2024

EN Speech

Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

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Madam President, in four of the EU's Member States, it is still legal to hit your child. Children with a disability are still living in inaccessible societies, excluding them from school, sport or, you know, just a normal, interesting free time. And still, we have Member States that do not allow for children to access and inherit their parents' citizenship because their parents belong to the same …

27 Nov

2024

EN Speech

The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran

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Madam President, her name is Mahsa Jina Amini. Her name is Nasrin Sotoudeh. Her name is Ahoo Daryaei. Her name is the fight. The fight for every woman in Iran. Two years ago, I stood here in the plenary trying to echo the message of these women, and two years later, I stand here once more. The situation is even worsening. Women are no longer only facing arbitrary detention, torture and abuse, but …

27 Nov

2024

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Recent legislation targeting LGBTQI persons and the need for protecting the rule of law and a discrimination-free Union (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your I have to say that I am amazed at the amount of "hit-on" laws that Viktor Orbán o. co. can invent to discriminate against LGBTIQ people and their rights. At first, women did not give birth to enough children. Well, what's the answer? Yes, to limit rainbow families. Then it was unnatural, immoral, even unpatriotic to love someone of the same sex. …

25 Nov

2024

EN Question

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

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Thank you for this speech that did not say anything about ending the violence against women. I just wanted you to clarify here, did you just compare animal welfare with gender-based violence? Is that your purpose?…

25 Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

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Mr President, every time we stand here to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is proof of our collective failure. Because even when we say that all girls and women deserve a life free from violence, we still do not have, for all women in the EU, access to legal and safe abortion. Still today, we do not have a European common definition of rape. This is here tod…

23 Oct

2024

EN Speech

Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Commissioner, esteemed colleagues, state control over her body, state control over her health, state control over her own choices. The ban on abortion in Poland has led to a lethal outcome for many women in Poland. One year has passed since the government change, a change that was led by the young people of Poland, by the women in Poland, and nothing has happened yet. Thousands…

23 Oct

2024

EN Answer

Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

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I maybe do not see the conflict in your question or the big issue in your question. I do believe that what we are differing in is 'how do we do it?' Nobody here is defending the overstay of everyone here. No one is defending that. What we are talking about is: how do we make people return? How do we enable them actually to have a life in dignity when they go back home? How do we make their countri…

23 Oct

2024

SV Speech

Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your There seems to be a misunderstanding here in the debate that the house is divided in terms of repatriation. What we didn't agree on here, that's how It's going to happen. Resettlement without taking into account the possibilities for the returnee to be reintegrated is not the answer. Resettlement without taking into account the conditions in the …

10 Oct

2024

EN Speech

Composition of committees and delegations

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Madam President, dear colleagues, over three years ago, we actually voted in this Parliament to allow some resolutions on foreign affairs to be translated into non-EU languages. We decided to go for the UN languages, namely, besides the coverage that we already have with our own EU languages, it is Mandarin, Russian and Arabic. Still, three years after this date, we have already hired translators …

10 Oct

2024

SV Speech

The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Religious intolerance is increasing in our Union, as well as in the rest of the world. Last week, I stood here talking about the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, two phenomena that poison public discourse but also make the lives of so many so difficult and unbearable: an anti-Semitism that we thought we had resisted and learned our lesson …

9 Oct

2024

EN Speech

Iraq, notably the situation of women’s rights and the recent proposal to amend the Personal Status Law

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Madam President, Commissioner, 'The time of the concubines is over. Women are no longer slaves.' These are the words chanted by the women of Iraq on the streets of every Iraqi city. In 2004, there was the first attempt to implement this law and it was stopped at that time. But now, 20 years later, this law has come back to haunt the girls and women in Iraq. This anti-women agenda is driven by the …

8 Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

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Madam President, the EU must stop the association agreement with Netanyahu and his extremist government right now. There is no other solution right now than ceasefire. We cannot pray for peace while arming one side in this war. Nobody has ever managed to bomb their way to peace, to justice, to security, to dignity. It is simply not possible to bring security and safety through the indiscriminate k…

7 Oct

2024

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Need to fight the systemic problem of gender-based violence in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Madam Commissioner, I would like to thank you for your In April, we in the EU approved the first legislation on violence against women – only in 2024. One in three women in the EU has experienced physical or sexual violence – one in three. However, we were unable to include a European definition of rape or a requirement for consent, something that I and the…