What Mélissa spoke about.

19

Dec

2024

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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)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I shall now read you a few lines. These are the amendments proposed to this resolution by far-right MEPs, and these are just a few examples: “Recognizes that the ideology of transgenderism poses a threat to the status of women in the EU and globally by blurring women’s identity, allowing a man to freely appropriate a woman’s identity; [...] opposes…

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)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to say a word to the far right: Our kids are fine. Their only problem in life is your hatred. Today is a special day for the European Union. We LGBT people see the bulwark that Europe must be for the guarantee of our fundamental rights weakened by the arrival of the far right to the vice-presidency of the Commission. We LGBT people …

25

Nov

2024

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen: “Patriarchy no longer exists.” These are the words of the Italian Minister of Education in a tribute to Giulia Cecchettin, the victim of a femicide in 2023. Unleashing its xenophobic agenda, the European far right presents us with a European society rid, finally, of patriarchal society and patriarchal arbitrariness. This propaganda puts women and girls at risk. …

23

Oct

2024

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in recent years, Poles have mobilised massively, they have risen up against the Constitutional Court’s decision to reduce access to abortion. They stood up against the deaths and imprisonment of women who wanted only one thing: to be able to fully enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights, in complete safety. What happened in Poland with the black…

7

Oct

2024

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

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to talk to you this evening about this trial in Mazan, France, about the strength of Gisèle, a 72-year-old woman who will face 51 of her attackers for four months, after having lived through hell for almost ten years. Men aged 26-73, firefighters, nurses, bakers, engineers, neighbors, friends, colleagues, husbands, fathers. What this trial…

18

Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the time available to me, I would like to speak to you about Zakia Khudadadi, an Afghan athlete who won a medal at the Paralympic Games for the refugee delegation. Zakia had to flee the Taliban regime three years ago because she was a woman, because she had a disability, because Hazaras, but also because she wanted to live her passion fully: Taekwondo. You wi…

16

Sep

2024

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Persistent problems of anti-Semitism in Europe and of other forms of hate speech and hate crimes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner McGuinness, ladies and gentlemen, the attack on the synagogue in La Grande-Motte, the increase in anti-Semitic acts, death threats and bomb threats in front of mosques in Lyon, Madrid and Munich, LGBT-phobic attacks everywhere, and the ever-increasing number of such attacks, such is the Europe that is emerging before our eyes. And these are just some examples among many …