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2022

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Iranian morality police, just for having the Islamic veil misplaced, is a case of intolerable and shocking violence and restriction of women's most basic rights. It's one of those cases that we thought no longer existed in our world, such as female genital mutilation. But here they remain among us. More than our solidarity, today is our cr…

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Oct

2022

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Radio Equipment Directive: common charger for electronic devices (debate)

Madam President, for more than ten years we have heard arguments about the dangers that a common charger would pose to innovation. This is a frequent prejudice, but rarely more than that. The innovation that interests us is one that improves people's quality of life and respects the limits of our planet. Different chargers just brought us tons of e-waste, preventing us from using our old chargers …

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Jul

2022

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Better regulation: joining forces to make better laws (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much to the rapporteur. When we adopt a regulation or directive here, our mission is only fulfilled much later, when an ex-post impact assessment proves to us that our objectives have been met. Unfortunately, we all know that this does not always happen and that sometimes the problem is the original text, either because it was written in an unclear and complex way, or …

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Jul

2022

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Common European action on care (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, almost all of us are going to be cared for or cared for by someone throughout our lives. It is time for us to recognise that this task is crucial for the well-being of the society in which we live. In the European case, in view of demographic trends, this will be increasingly the case and it is women who provide the vast majority of care tasks. Let us hope that this wil…

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Jul

2022

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Women’s poverty in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, one day, during the 2019 European Parliament election campaign, I met Margarida at a station in Lisbon. She was Cape Verdean and had emigrated to Portugal because her children's father disappeared without news. She left the children with her grandmother, on an island in Santiago, and came looking for resources, doing hourly cleaning in city houses and surroundings. W…

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Jul

2022

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Digital Services Act - Digital Markets Act (debate)

Mr President, Commissioners, as legislators, it is good to know that we are able to decide quickly when we commit ourselves to this. After two decades of almost no regulation we have reached a new stage in the life of online platforms and digital markets, with regulation that protects the interests of users, who can choose their messaging service, that of small businesses, who have suffered from u…

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Jun

2022

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The instrumentalisation of justice as a repressive tool in Nicaragua

Madam President, the death of the Sandinista revolutionary general Hugo Torres in February this year shows that even those who fought alongside Daniel Ortega are falling into his hands. General Torres was imprisoned for eight months in inhumane conditions, subject to constant interrogation and with indications of suffering torture until the day of his death. The families of hundreds of politicians…

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Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

Madam President, 60,000 women die every year in the world as a result of complications associated with illegal abortions. It is also in their lives that we are thinking today. Therefore, the fight for the non-criminalization of abortion has been a solidarity struggle between many women in different parts of the world and many men as well. North American, South American, African and European women.…

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May

2022

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The impact of the war against Ukraine on women (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, there are increasing reports of Ukrainian women who have been victims of various forms of violence, including rape, at the hands of Russian soldiers. The use of violence against women as a weapon of war is not, unfortunately, a new problem or restricted to this conflict. I would even say that it has become a constant in war scenarios. An estimated 50,000 women were r…

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May

2022

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Artificial intelligence in a digital age (debate)

Madam President, in the world only about 22% of artificial intelligence professionals are women. Unfortunately, this gender inequality is also reflected here in the European Parliament. All those responsible for this report from the various political groups were men. It must be very important... There are, however, a number of women interested in this topic, as we can see even in this debate, who …

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Apr

2022

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Right to repair (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the importance of repair has become so evident that even some of the largest manufacturers have changed course in this direction. Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, are three brands that have recently launched programs in common to allow repair by third parties or their own users of several of their products. The opinion of European citizens is clear. According to Eurobarome…

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Apr

2022

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The situation of the rule of law and human rights in the Republic of Guatemala

Mr President, Erika Aifan was the last of 20 judges who had to leave Guatemala because of a very oily system of accusations. It begins on social networks against judges and bailiffs who deal with anti-corruption and drug trafficking cases, followed by unproven denunciations that end in arrest warrants, forcing judges to go into exile to avoid arrest. This system, led by the current prosecutor, whi…

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Mar

2022

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EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on this International Women's Day it is good that we not only discuss the internal problems of the European Parliament, which also exist, but that we remember women from all over the world. Let us remember Afghan women, whose most basic rights, such as access to education, have disappeared with the Taliban regimes, let us remember women, or rather girls, who are…

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Mar

2022

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Gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament – annual report 2020 (debate)

Ladies and gentlemen, in February 2020 before the pandemic began, women faced numerous political, social and economic inequalities, some of which have been accentuated in the last two years or, at least, have become more visible, such as precarious employment and therefore higher unemployment, or the lack of reconciliation between personal, professional and family life. In the European Parliament,…

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Feb

2022

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The EU priorities for the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, there is not a single country in the world that has achieved gender equality. It is estimated that 70% of the world's most impoverished population are women, that two out of three people who cannot read or write are women, and that although more than 40% of agricultural workers are women, they own 20% less land. These are the reasons for this discussion that we are havi…

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Feb

2022

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Implementation of the Toy Safety Directive (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we all had our favourite toys, much simpler than those that exist today. Like many other objects, toys are increasingly connected, which means that the children's room is connected to the world. In order to avoid situations such as the Kayla doll, which allowed any stranger to enter its system and communicate with children, we need to ensure that the next version of thi…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Cuba, namely the cases of José Daniel Ferrer, Lady in White Aymara Nieto, Maykel Castillo, Luis Robles, Félix Navarro, Luis Manuel Otero, Reverend Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, Andy Dunier García and Yunior García Aguilera

Madam President, when Maykel Castillo received the Latin Grammys for Best Urban Music and Song of the Year on 18 November 2021, she did so from prison in Cuba, not from a stage in Las Vegas. The music , which awarded him, playing with that of Fidel Castro is precisely a message of liberation of the Cuban people. As with Maykel, the oppression of artistic and civic movements and the garrote of expr…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Miguel Mora, Medardo Mairena and Noel Vidaurre are the seven presidential candidates arrested before the last elections in Nicaragua under unacceptable conditions, together with hundreds of activists, journalists and businessmen. Some might think that after the theatrical Nicaraguan ele…

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Dec

2021

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Digital Markets Act (debate)

Madam President, after the GDPR, which has served as a reference throughout the world for the protection of personal data, we are now taking an equivalent step towards competition rules with DNA. A step to protect sellers who see their products copied and customers stolen by large platforms and to protect consumers forced to buy multiple services even when they only want to enjoy one. It's a resul…

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Dec

2021

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Equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020 (debate)

Madam President, there are persistent inequalities in the European Union, inequalities that resist the law, inequalities that resist intervention. In wages, for example: 14% less per hour than men. In the distribution of part-time work: 31% of women compared to 8% of men. And a lot of other numbers we've heard here today. And there are new inequalities, as we showed in the previous debate. In othe…

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Dec

2021

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Combating gender-based violence: cyberviolence (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, 90% of victims who share pornographic images without consent are women. The online world is not safe for them, and above all it is not safe for girls, who are often victims of harassment at ages when they are not mature enough to defend themselves without being crushed. Commissioner, it is not enough to incorporate a gender perspective into the proposals that seek to…

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Nov

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The outcome of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, last week I was part of a Parliament delegation in the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence and we had the opportunity to discuss in depth technological cooperation with Members, Presidency services, the Department of State and Trade, stakeholders and various think tanks. We converge on the goal of accelerating innovation. We even converge on the values we ne…

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Oct

2021

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The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

Madam President, 60,000 women die every year in the world as a result of complications associated with illegal abortions. That's what we're talking about. Texas' new abortion law, which a federal judge yesterday blocked at the request of the Justice Department and President Biden, has stripped women of access to medical, legal, safe, and worse: This law encourages shocking social policing, rewardi…

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Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, Commissioner, in July we affirmed in this same plenary our commitment to respect the rights and freedoms of expression of all citizens in Cuba, defending the dignity and physical integrity of those who are fighting for a democratic Cuba. Today I reiterate this position by saying that the effort to increase cybersecurity, to which we are all committed, cannot be used as a pretext i…

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Jul

2021

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A new ERA for Research and Innovation (debate)

–Mr President, investment in research and development in the European Union has increased by 1.3% annually since 2010. Despite this, we still need EUR 110 billion to reach 3% of GDP in all Member States. We need more ambition from the Commission, we need it to speed up the presentation of proposals to dignify the careers of researchers, who are not always rewarded in the scale of the work they do,…