What María Soraya spoke about.

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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, Commissioner, persecution of human rights defenders, journalists; threats, arrests and harassment of judicial operators ... Since 2019 in Guatemala, the institutions created capable of fighting corruption and impunity have been dismantled: This was pointed out by the High Representative, the UN Human Rights Council at its last session... There is a clear and very worrying trend towar…

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Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights (debate)

Madam President, the return of the Taliban regime to Afghanistan has made this country a real humanitarian emergency, but also a gender emergency. Afghan women warned us not to believe in their empty commitments, in promises that this time they would respect human rights and women's rights. Today's Taliban are the same as they were 20 years ago and women's rights are being trampled on in this coun…

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Apr

2022

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Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for having this debate, which is certainly timely. The Intergovernmental Panel report makes it very clear to us that the pace of our actions to achieve the goals is incompatible with our climate pledges. If we do not change what we are doing in the short and long term, we will not be able to contain the warming by 1.5 degrees, but we are approaching 3.2 deg…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this illegal and criminal invasion of Ukraine is going to create food insecurity thousands and thousands of kilometres from the war. Many countries already living on food aid today will see their situation deteriorate and low-income countries that rely heavily on food imports as well. In the European Union our situation is that we are self-sufficient in many products…

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Mar

2022

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The situation of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico

Madam President, Mexico has begun one of the bloodiest years for press freedom with six journalists killed (47 since 2018), a shocking situation that shows the situation of violence experienced by journalists in Mexico. In this context, this violence also has a woman's face because in the period 2010 to 2021 there have been more than 1,200 aggressions against women, mainly reporters (769 of these …

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Mar

2022

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Madam President, thank you to the rapporteur for the work done on this report. The challenges and opportunities ahead are of unprecedented magnitude and urgency. Therefore, the urgency to make progress on the Green Deal and on this 8th Framework Programme is clearly urgent. There is a voice that, in the face of the emergency and the consequences of war, we should delay the objectives of the Green …

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Mar

2022

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EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, this year, International Women's Day is marked by the criminal and illegal invasion of Ukraine and by the largest exodus of refugees that we have lived on European soil since World War II. This exodus has a woman's face. Just six months ago, we found Afghan women returning to the hell they had left twenty years ago. The international community was on the brink of a real…

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Feb

2022

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The death penalty in Iran

Mr President, it has already been said: The reality of the death penalty in Iran is dramatic, being at the head of the countries of the world with the greatest executions. We can say that men, women, children, no one escapes the death penalty in Iran; children wait until they reach the age of majority to be executed. I also believe that the death penalty in Iran must be linked to the situation of …

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Feb

2022

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The recent human rights developments in the Philippines

Mr President, the violence and repression under the Duterte regime is described as crimes against humanity, as the International Criminal Court has done in the preliminary investigation into the war on drugs, in which more than 20,000 murders have been caused since 2016. Under Duterte's government, more than 166 killings of environmental defenders were recorded. The Philippines is the country that…

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Feb

2022

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Droughts and other extreme weather phenomena on the Iberian Peninsula and other parts of Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for this debate on water stress, the drought in Europe, because you clearly state that the consequences of climate change are uneven and asymmetric. Most of the European population living under water stress lives in southern European countries. Specifically, in my country, Spain, twenty-two million people who, since the autumn, in which the water season has be…

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Feb

2022

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Human rights and democracy in the world – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

Mr President, thank you, and thank you all for this debate and thank you also for the conclusions of the High Representative. I think it is clear that in this Parliament there is a majority, a consensus, on the importance of placing human rights and values at the centre of our foreign policy action. There is a majority that is committed to more Europe, a stronger Europe and a Europe of values. I a…

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Feb

2022

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Human rights and democracy in the world – annual report 2021 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are presenting this report, which is the X-ray of two years unpublished in recent history in the field of human rights and democracy. First of all, I would like to thank all the civil society organisations that have contributed to this report, as well as my colleagues responsible for this report in the various political groups: Thank you very much fo…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, this is indeed an opportunity to renew our commitment to the African continent. I agree with your positive vision: the partnership between the European Union and Africa needs to be renewed. The donor-recipient model has been out of date for some time now and we must create a more strategic, renewed, peer-to-peer partnership by listening to our African partn…

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Jan

2022

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Political crisis in Sudan

Madam President, Commissioner, the revolution of 2019, which ended in Sudan with the dictatorship of Omar Al-Bashir, was led by women. "The Kandaka," they called them. Because the defence of democracy, after the coup d’état of 25 October 2021, is also led by women, and the military is using sexual violence and rape as a massive weapon of repression of the population. Last month alone, in the conte…

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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

Mr. President, Cuba is one of the worst dictatorships in Latin America today, and, as the High Representative said in this very rostrum, dictatorships have no ideology: Their only ideology is repression and terror. This November, the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights registered more than 1,130 repressive actions against activists, journalists, opponents, artists and minors; Thus, filling Cuban pr…

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Dec

2021

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Outcome of Global Summit Nutrition for Growth (Japan, 7-8 December) and increased food insecurity in developing countries (debate)

Mr President, more than 800 million people went hungry last year, but approximately three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet, 40% of the population. This figure is only increasing. An increase of more than 161 million last year. Why is it like that? Because hunger is not a problem of lack of food but a problem of lack of rights, of fundamental rights of almost half of the population, whic…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, yesterday Dora María Téllez, Ana Margarita Vijil, Suyén Barahona and Tamara Dávila, all women at the forefront of the struggle for freedoms and democracy in Nicaragua, served six months in prison, six months of torture, six months of harassment of their families. But there are, as has been said, more than one hundred and seventy political prisoners in Nicaragua. I cannot quote them a…

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Dec

2021

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Combating gender-based violence: cyberviolence (debate)

Mr President, one in ten European women has experienced some form of cyber violence since the age of 15. 20% have experienced cyber sexual harassment, of which 77% have also experienced some form of sexual or physical violence by their intimate partner. In short, this is what we are talking about: violence against women. A violence that moves to the network. Commissioner: We need European tools to…

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Oct

2021

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The Right to a Healthy Environment (debate)

Madam President, climate change is the greatest threat to human health: The same unsustainable decisions that are killing the planet are killing people today. This was pointed out last week by the World Health Organization. Also, as has recently been mentioned, on a historic day at the United Nations Human Rights Council, the right to a healthy environment was approved as a recognized internationa…

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Oct

2021

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The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

Madam President, Commissioner, for those Members who do not understand why we are debating this today, I would like to point out that the substance of the matter is human rights. Human rights that are universal. And women's rights are universal rights. A woman's right to decide about her life, to decide about her motherhood, to decide about her safety and her own body is a universal human right. W…

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Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, consumers, small and medium-sized businesses and the self-employed are seeing the uncontrolled electricity bill jeopardise the viability of their economies and businesses. This is not the time for political tacticism. The Green Deal is not the cause of this dramatic situation. On the contrary, today we are paying the price of not having acted before to decarbonize our economy and …

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Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, we are debating an urgent resolution because, after the historic protests of 11 July 2021, according to NGOs, more than 5 000 people were arbitrarily detained and, as of 21 September, 1 306 people are still missing or detained, including 27 children, and because the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances has opened an urgent case file to investigate 187 enforced disappearances. T…

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Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

–Mr President, Mr High Representative, we must indeed draw lessons from this nonsense of withdrawal and from mistakes made over 20 years, but above all also from the European Union's follow-up to US policy. We need a common foreign policy, strategic autonomy. If we don't do foreign policy, others will do it for us. Russia and China are willing. But now, above all, we need to make no more mistakes …

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Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

Mr President, a new report by climate change experts has indeed been published this summer, accumulating scientific evidence. But also, unfortunately, we have suffered natural disasters that no longer happen far from our homes, but in our homes: floods in Germany, in Belgium, terrible third-generation fires in my country. Therefore, there is no other option, there is no ‘plan B’: We need to act to…

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Jul

2021

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur for her work and for the excellent cooperation she has had with all those responsible for this important project on the framework programme for the environment. For more than 40 years the framework programmes have guided the European Union's environmental policy, but this eighth framework programme is different, beca…