What Rima spoke about.

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Jun

2026

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The role of the EU in efforts for peace and stability throughout the Middle East after the announced deal between the US and Iran (debate)

Madam President, Israel has declared that it is not concerned about the agreement between Iran and the United States and continues its bombing of Gaza and southern Lebanon. So, I have to say, I am attending this debate without really knowing what it will be for. We are tired of going up to this podium to hear the same wooden language from those who constantly invoke the international rules that th…

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May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the hostility of the United States against the Cuban people to impose its capitalist model had never reached such a level of cruelty: In addition to the 1962 embargo, which cost more than $170 billion in damage, there is now an oil blockade that is suffocating the entire country. Paralyzed hospitals, more than 100,000 surgical operations on hold, an infant mo…

18

May

2026

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Order of business

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, between the time the agenda was adopted and today there was an extension of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon by 45 days, i.e. on Friday. And it turns out that yesterday this ceasefire was violated again, killing seven people on the Lebanese side. That is why we ask you to reconsider the situation in Lebanon by agreeing to a debate.…

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Apr

2026

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Escalating trafficking and exploitation by criminal groups in Haiti

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Apr

2026

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Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Urgent need to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan and to achieve a sustainable peace (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at the beginning of 2016 the lack of credibility of the European Union's external policy on the defence of human rights and democracy was over. Added to the complicity with the genocide in Gaza is the inability of the European Union to strongly condemn the kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of the Venezuelan president by the United States of Trump. Washingto…

16

Dec

2025

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Recent developments in Palestine and Lebanon (debate)

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Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

Madam President, in a colonial context, peace always describes the tranquility of the colonizer, never justice for the colonized. Behind the mask of peacemakers, there is also the face of the architects of genocide and colonialism, for whom Palestine is first and foremost the ground for political, ideological and economic expansion. Since its entry into force, the ceasefire has been violated more …

7

Jul

2025

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Arbitrary sentencing of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and journalist Christophe Gleizes (debate)

Madam President, I say this to the descendants of settlers here, who will recognize themselves: Algeria is no longer a colony. The relationship with Algeria, like the relationship with the African continent, must change its tone and posture. Despite one hundred and thirty-two years of colonisation and the ‘black decade’, Algeria is standing by the strength of its people, whose demands for justice …

17

Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Madam President, from the Sykes-Picot agreements to the present day, the Palestinian people are being ethnically cleansed. The colonial transition between the British Empire and the Zionist movement has the same objective: to dispossess the Palestinians of Palestine. For almost two years, this dispossession has become a veritable enterprise of extermination. I have two minutes of speaking time tod…

16

Jun

2025

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Madam President, on 1 June, I was kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli army while on board a humanitarian ship en route to Gaza. There were twelve of us on board the ship, including ten European citizens. We have all been abducted, forcibly deported by Israel, and then illegally detained for several days in the deafening silence of this Parliament. No conviction, no call for unconditio…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Mr MEP, you talked about Israel's right to defend itself: this right does not exist in international law. On the other hand, there is a right that applies to an occupying Power, which is the right to preserve, precisely, the civilian population. With regard to Hamas, I would like to hear from you about the revelations made by the Israeli press about Netanyahu's support for Hamas. He said Hamas was…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, 77 years ago, my family experienced the Nakba, the destruction of more than 500 villages, the massacre of thousands of civilians and the expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians. What few say here is that the Palestinians in Gaza are overwhelmingly children of this Nakba, and what they are experiencing today is a continuous Nakba. At the same time as we are debating the annexation of Gaz…

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Apr

2025

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Prosecution of journalists in Cameroon, notably the cases of Amadou Vamoulké, Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka, Mancho Bibixy, Thomas Awah Junior, Tsi Conrad (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Cameroon is a country rich in its media landscape: 600 newspapers, 200 radio stations and more than 60 television channels. However, it is in 138th place out of 170 in the ranking of Reporters Without Borders. Due to a triple colonization of Germany, France and the United Kingdom, tensions between Francophones and Anglophones are at the heart of the repression o…

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Apr

2025

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Dramatic situation in Gaza and the need for an immediate return to the full implementation of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement (debate)

I must say that your interventions are a bit up to your political mediocrity on this subject. The issues you raise are in fact already dealt with by international courts. They are already covered by hundreds of UN resolutions. Colonisation, illegal occupation, appartheid, genocide: all this is documented by everything you claim to be defending here, namely the international order. With regard to H…

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Mar

2025

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Severe political, humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sudan, in particular the sexual violence and child rape

Mr. Speaker, in 2019, Sudanese women bravely took to the streets to make the revolution. Today, they commit suicide for fear of rape. Since April 2023, the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has already left tens of thousands dead, three million refugees and nine million internally displaced. The war has caused a famine, which is likely to worsen since Trump froze U…

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Feb

2025

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Protecting the system of international justice and its institutions, in particular the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, undermining international law is a losing bet for the entire international community. Trump's recent statements, applauded by his fascist international allies, have the merit of exposing their hypocrisy. The United States has never been a true ally in the defence of international justice. Historically, they have used human rights and democracy as a pretext fo…

22

Jan

2025

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Case of Boualem Sansal in Algeria

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, since the beginning of this mandate, our group has consistently called for urgent resolutions on the great tragedies of our time to be put on the agenda: war motivated by the plundering of resources in the DRC, ethnic cleansing in Sudan or genocide in Palestine. For this plenary, it is the alliance of the right and the extreme right that has put on the agenda…

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Jan

2025

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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)

Mr President, on 17 October 2023 I, along with others, sent a public letter demanding policies that they act for a horizon of justice. The release of the hostages had to go hand in hand with the liberation of the Palestinian people, hostage to Israeli colonialism. At that time, the number of Palestinian victims was 2,808. The ceasefire, which we have claimed with all our might, comes after the com…

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)

Madam President, in Kivu, Sudan and elsewhere, women's bodies are being turned into battlefields, and rape is being used as a weapon of war. Wars of predation on resources and foreign interference have resulted in the massacre of 6 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with almost total indifference and impunity. In Sudan, women are also systematic targets of sexual violence, even as…

17

Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, 8 December 2024 marked the end of the reign of the Assad family. From the Caesar report to the recent images of Syrian refugees planning to return for the first time, we continue to witness the scale of torture and other inhuman and degrading treatment perpetrated under Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian revolution was confiscated from its people by both regional and Western powers. Syrian …

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Nov

2024

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have just returned from a mission to the Canary Islands, where the number of children travelling alone along one of the most dangerous migratory routes is constantly increasing. Reception centres, supposed to be temporary shelters, are saturated. Children stay there for years, crammed in unworthy conditions. This situation is once again a painful mirror of…

27

Nov

2024

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The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran

Madam President, for some, the feminist struggle consists in making the plight of certain women, such as Palestinian women, invisible and treating the plight of other women selectively and ideologically. This is especially true for Iranian women. The left has always fought for the right of women to freely dispose of their bodies, to choose their way of life and to guarantee their fundamental right…