What Rosa spoke about.

Mr President, Commissioner, since the Taliban took power, oppression and persecution of women have been institutionalised, which is a crime against humanity. Since coming to power, attempts have been made to erase women from public life and reorganize Afghan society around male supremacy. Women are the great victims, there has been a apartheid gender, but also collectives such as the LGTBIQ: banned education, excluded from the labour market, they cannot travel, mandatory burqa, they cannot play sports, sing, or raise their voices in public, they face appalling punishments, public executions, stoning, rape. Now, with the Criminal Procedure Code for the Courts, women's rights are further eroded: domestic violence is legalised; women seeking protection from abuse are criminalised; corporal punishment, such as torture, is institutionalized; slavery is recognised; the death penalty is imposed for multiple crimes without guarantees of a fair trial; Husbands are given discretionary authority to punish their wives for disobedience. In short, a heinous crime. We therefore strongly condemn this crime. We raise our voices, we cannot let them fight alone, we cannot recognize or normalize this heinous crime: to hold the Taliban accountable for human rights violations, to put an end to all these atrocities. Let us express - Commission, Parliament and Council - our unwavering commitment to the Afghan people.

Madam President, Commissioner, it is clear that with Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and during its implementation, shortcomings were identified. Basically because the victims were unaware of their rights, did not report enough and, in addition, did not receive adequate support for their specific needs. That is why this new directive corrects all these difficulties and establishes a person-based approach. This is crucial, because this Directive takes into account gender, whether a person has a disability, whether they are a minor and the circumstances of the victims. Therefore, the topic is approached in a personalized way. That is very important, especially for vulnerable groups, such as minors and people with disabilities, because this Directive does what it does is adapt, make the entire victimisation procedure accessible, and, therefore, it is very important for this group. Digital access to justice, including accessible adaptations, is important as a complement to traditional channels. The European number of victims is also reinforced by the European number for missing children, victims of gender-based violence or the children's telephone. Undoubtedly, it facilitates the possibility of reporting, eliminating many obstacles that until now had for complaints, strengthening privacy and also data protection. Specialised, free and accessible support services are very important; are key, as well as strengthening access to effective legal aid and, of course, information throughout the process to all victims. There is an important issue: for victims of sexual violence, they shall be guaranteed access to sexual and reproductive health services and access to abortion in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity. Ultimately, the rights of victims must be clear, accessible and enforceable, and, of course, there must be measures to protect against terrorism and serious crime. The glorification of these crimes is a violation of the dignity of the victims. Congratulations to the speakers, Javier Zarzalejos and Lucia Yar, for this important work.

Mr President, Commissioner, tomorrow is a great day. Tomorrow we have the opportunity to show the world that Europe is taking a step forward and supporting this report on care, which is the prelude to the European Care Pact that the Commission will present in 2027. Tomorrow we have to rise to the occasion. It can't be a political battle because "that article I wanted like that" or "that amendment I wanted differently." Dialogue means we all give up. There were over 600 amendments. We've made a lot of compromises. In committee we had almost unanimous support. I call on all political groups to have that same support tomorrow. If we leave here tomorrow with many votes in favour of this report, which is not a report by Mrs Meleti or Mrs Estaràs; is a report from Europe; is a report for caregivers; is a report for social justice, for equality and for human rights, we will be much stronger to be able to claim a European Care Pact next year. It is at stake to change the mentality and do pedagogy. Caring sustains the world and does not appear on any payroll. Caring has a woman's face. Woman cares, plans, organizes, accompanies, and therefore we need to change this reality. It can only be changed by supporting a pact together, with initiatives, leaving ideology aside to support human rights all together. The credibility of this House is at stake. Please, I call on all political groups to support us, because by supporting this we support the future of thousands upon thousands of men and women who are waiting for us to rise to the occasion.

Madam President, Commissioner, we know: the demand for care is growing rapidly. Care is key to ensuring well-being, dignity, equality and human rights. It is women who continue to shoulder a disproportionate burden of care, both formal and informal. This imbalance undermines their income, professional development and pensions, perpetuates inequalities and further limits women's participation in society and the economy. It has an impact on the pay gap (38% pay gap) and the pension gap (25%). Women spend 17 hours a week more than men on unpaid care and six years of their lives on unpaid care, which is invisible. They are the invisible backbone of all these cares. Care delivery remains undervalued, with insufficient resources. Occupational care has precarious working conditions, as we all know, and also a lot of physical and emotional pressure with very low wages. We need, therefore, to value the care sector, to recognise it as a key sector: this sector caters for children, the elderly, people with disabilities, dependency, long-term care and so on. It is necessary, therefore, to recognize the fundamental role of all these cares throughout all stages of life. Access to care is a right and care must be affordable, accessible and of quality. And they must reach every corner: rural areas, outermost islands, remote areas. It cannot be that one gets older and these cares do not exist. Member States will therefore have to correctly implement the Conciliation Directive because - we were already with the Commissioner yesterday - we need it to be well implemented and to make an assessment of the implementation of this Directive. It's very important the permits are real and the reconciliation is real: only then can we guarantee a participation effective participation of women in the labour market. We will also have to pay special attention to informal care. Many women leave the labour market because they have to take care of a family member or a person in need of care and that undoubtedly has an impact on their future. There are also young people who act as caregivers: focus on them because, in the end, their education, well-being and development may be affected by these care responsibilities. We need to improve wages and working conditions in the care sector, and jobs need to be more attractive to be able to incentivise many people to go to this sector. We call in this report for the creation of a European status for carers to ensure a single standard and recognition of carers in all Member States; that would reduce inequalities between one state and another. Of course, it is very important to support single parents or vulnerable families and a specific plan for them. This was also said by my colleague Meleti, whom I would like to thank for her tireless work over a year with all the other political groups. the Renew Group, S&D Group, The Left Group, all groups, to be able to work together on this, which is an important milestone. Many times, care is linked to women from countries that do not belong to the European Union and, therefore, we must first concentrate efforts to make this care very attractive so that it is the nationals who can access these jobs, but always bet on legal immigration and, through legal and well-managed immigration, with fair conditions, we can make caregiver work attractive. Member States will be able to use funds (the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Recovery and Resilience Facility...) to be able to have all these services and, of course, we welcome with infinite satisfaction the European Care Pact that the Commission has announced for the year 2027 and that is going to be our roadmap. So it's our responsibility to change this. It is in the hands of all of you and all of you that tomorrow this comes through.

Mr President, Commissioner, every ten minutes a woman is murdered and there is no doubt that the figures are terrifying. We have the right not to be victims of violence because we are women. The Istanbul Convention set the course for combating and preventing violence against women. Consent has to be clear, it has to be unequivocal, affirmative, free and reversible, and this is key to preventing and protecting women. Silence can never mean a yes. This has nothing to do with the "only yes is yes" law that was passed in my country. And Lina Gálvez knows it very well, because that law made it possible for thousands of rapists to see their sentences reduced and hundreds to be seen on the street. And it was the group of Lina Gálvez, the socialist, and my group, the popular, who changed the law so that this did not happen. It is one thing to argue that consent has to be clear - there we are all together - and another thing is a bad legislative technique that sent a very dangerous message to the public, and that releasing rapists was not good for victimization. The path is to follow the path set by the Istanbul Convention. Violence is combated with serious actions and concrete legislation.

Mr President, Commissioner, four years have passed since the creation of the Global Gateway, which was born to encourage public and private investment in projects that will boost the digital transition, the green transition, sustainable growth, healthcare, education, energy and the promotion of European values. There has been visible progress – more than 270 flagship projects – but there are challenges: challenges related to lack of visibility, coordination between institutions, slow and bureaucratic processes and a lack of clarity on actual funding. The selection of flagship projects does not yet follow transparent criteria and, therefore, we need four years later a shift towards a more participatory, more transparent model, with more coordination, more visibility and stronger parliamentary scrutiny. The withdrawal of certain actors in cooperation has left a vacuum that the European Union must fill. Global Gateway is a way to consolidate our geopolitical and geostrategic position, consolidate alliances and export our model based on human rights, democracy and sustainability.

Madam President, Commissioner, as you know, 21.4% of the total population of the European Union is at risk of poverty or exclusion and the trend indicates that the European Union will not reach the target of reducing the 15 million people in exclusion by 2030, since in almost half of the Member States poverty rates have stagnated or, even in some Member States, have increased. Data on child poverty are alarming and particularly serious. One in four children in Europe lives in poverty or social exclusion. Spain, my country, unfortunately has one of the highest rates of child poverty, ten points above the EU average – the EU average is 24.2% and Spain's 34.6% – pointing to a profound failure in my country's social protection system. Persons with disabilities, single-parent families, women or vulnerable groups have a much higher risk of poverty, stemming mainly from discrimination, lack of opportunities and social exclusion. Having a job is no longer a guarantee to get out of poverty, precisely because of the precariousness of work, the increase in the cost of living, the exorbitant increase in housing, etc. All this has generated alarming increases in exclusion. Commissioner, it is clear that we need a European anti-poverty strategy that is ambitious and comprehensive, that puts children and the most vulnerable groups at the centre of public action, and that ensures quality employment, decent housing and essential public services.

Mr. President, in these weeks, Iranian society has risen up across the country to demand future, dignity, justice and equality. The repression of the tyrannical regime has been brutal: thousands and thousands of fatalities, torture, injuries, detainees and so on. I want to focus on the courage and tenacity of Iranian women: they are on the front line of the mobilisations and are a priority subject of the oppressive regime; Let's remember Mahsa Amini. They are determined to fight for their rights. Gender-based violence is widespread there. Forced and early marriage is a reality. They are paid five times less than men. His word is worth half, just like inheritances. They have no freedom, no political rights and no control over their clothing – I've watched it since the age of nine. It is also a regime that hangs homosexuals. When you attack a woman, you attack all of us. The answer can never be silence. Let's raise our voices. It is not understood how some left-wing parties prioritize the ideological framework over a clear condemnation of the regime. The left goes on tiptoe and the defense of human rights can never be à la carte.

Mr President, a tsunami of cases of harassment of women in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party has toured my country, Spain. The me too The PSOE is advancing by leaps and bounds. A former adviser to Moncloa – from the team closest to the president – accused of harassment: five months the complaints have been in a drawer; Nothing has been investigated until the press has reported it. A mayor of a town in Andalusia, denounced for harassment: It is difficult to pronounce the testimony of the victims without being ashamed. The secretary general of the Socialist Party in Torremolinos also received complaints of harassment. The victim brought this protocol to his attention in June, but it did not work; She put it back in October, it didn't work either, and she had to go to the Prosecutor's Office alone in November because the PSOE didn't do anything. The secretary general of the Socialist Party in Galicia also went to see him for a complaint of harassment and his response was: And what do you want me to do? They are not isolated cases, it is a way of proceeding that indicates a degraded internal ecosystem. The problem is the answer given by the Socialist Party, always with the same pattern: Initial silence, deliberate inaction, forbidden calculation, looking the other way, no victims... because it matters more to protect the party than the victims after saying to the rest of the women "sister, I do believe you" and "silence is complicit". We do not go to the Prosecutor's Office more than when the aggressors are from the PP and we do not only act when the press takes it out. They try to collectivize guilt. Sanchism has humiliated equality. The forcefulness disappears, the indignation and feminism are diluted...

Mr President, Commissioner, the horizontal anti-discrimination directive has been - as you have said here - for more than 17 years in a drawer, blocked by the Council, to which we ask you to unblock it, because it is imperative to bet on the defence of human rights. I know that the Commissioner has made a superlative effort to be able to put this issue back on the Commission's agenda and I thank her very much. We need it to be unblocked because it guarantees equal protection against all forms of discrimination in the European Union and improves complaint mechanisms and access to justice, facilitates inclusion, increases legal certainty and, in addition, contemplates both direct and indirect, multiple and cross-sectoral discrimination and, therefore, what we do is prepare the anti-discrimination framework throughout the European Union with good armor. They know that there is discrimination on the grounds of religion, age – young people and older people are being discriminated against more than ever before – or sexual orientation. In relation to the latter, there is a very vulnerable group subject to discrimination, because hate crimes have been on the rise and this group is the target of many of them. That has to worry us and, in addition, occupy us with being able to approve this Directive that, together with the Strategy for the Equality of LGBTIQ+ Persons that we approved and that we will now approve again, marks the path of protection of this group. The same applies to the disability sector. It is very important to adopt that directive so that we can protect human rights and make a union of equality.

Madam President, on the verge of 25 November, the day dedicated to the fight against gender-based violence, the commitment of my unequivocal popular formation to equality, women's rights and the fight against violence against women in all its forms is ahead of me. Every ten minutes a woman is murdered in the world. The numbers are devastating and the photo evolves for the worse. We need a political and social commitment, but that commitment cannot be torpedoed by legislating for the benefit of sexual aggressors. In my country it was legislated, and there are still consequences, so that many rapists sexual aggressors were released. Hundreds and hundreds and thousands saw their sentence reduced. This does not combat violence against women. As a minister, she was one of the spokesmen who spoke today and gave us lessons in the fight against violence against women. Nor does it help when the anti-maltreatment bracelets in my country have been without functioning for eight months, violating the right to protection of the victims and having knowledge of this the minister. Nor paying with public money prostitutes - money of all of you - and humiliating women with phrases such as «Carlota se rolla que te shitas», by the Minister of Transport and number two of the Socialist Group of my country.

Mr President, Commissioner, we approved the roadmap for women's rights that will mark the gender equality strategy from 2026. Without equality there is neither competitiveness nor democracy nor social justice. We protect women's rights because we have the right to live in a society without violence against women. In my country, Spain, a poorly approved "only yes is yes" law made it possible for thousands and hundreds of rapists to see their sentences reduced and be on the street, with a colleague from The Left Group who is now a MEP being a minister. Also now in my country anti-maltreatment bracelets have failed for eight months, and that has made it possible for many cases of violence against women to have been dismissed, going against everything that we approve in this Parliament, such as the Victims' Protection Directive or the European Protection Order, because it speaks of the devices having to be reliable. We have the right to work-life balance. In my country, Spain has been fined almost seven million euros because parental leave has not been transposed well, also being a minister one of our colleagues from The Left. We have the right to equal pay, we have the right to equal opportunities. We must all be united in defending these women's rights to achieve true democracy.

Mr President, Commissioner, the Second World Summit for Social Development will now take place in November, thirty years after Copenhagen. It is a good time to analyze the path traveled and to see the challenges of the future. Of course, poverty and social exclusion must be reduced, decent employment for all must be sought, vulnerable groups must be protected and social inclusion must also be fought for. The issue of child poverty worries me extraordinarily. One in five children in the European Union is at risk of poverty, and Spain leads child poverty in Europe, with almost three million children and adolescents at risk of poverty. In addition, the data do not decrease, but have been increasing in recent years. The child poverty rate in my country is ten points above the European Union average. If we add to this four hundred thousand Spaniards more than a year ago who need the minimum vital income to survive, we can see that it is a crucial issue and that we have to worry about as a matter of priority. We will have to establish and implement the European Care Strategy. We will have to fight inequality, eradicate poverty, protect groups of disabilities, immigration, young people, the elderly, immigrants, LGTBI and vulnerable groups in general, guarantee quality health care and lifelong education, the housing plan and labor inclusion for all. In short, to enforce the roadmap of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan. There will be no democracy if there is no social justice. Therefore, attending to the social is key to restoring trust in the rulers. The new financial framework does not help much. Without the European Social Fund, the group that I represent the most - that of disability - dies. The Commission must therefore take action to restore confidence in human rights.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, since the Taliban came to power four years ago, the cascade of prohibitions and attacks on human rights and crimes against humanity has been constant in Afghanistan. Women have been erased from public space, they can't study more than until the age of twelve, they can't work or play sports, they can't go out if it's not with a relative, they can't get medical care from men. Even books written by women have been banned. And after the earthquake, with more than two thousand two hundred dead and thousands injured, women and girls have not been treated and have been disproportionately victimized. We add to this, in addition, the internet blackout a few days ago and, therefore, it is absolutely essential that we raise our voices. Where are the activists who have been in so many conflicts and are not in this one? Women have been without rights for four years and we only have debates. Where are the activists to stop this atrocity? Let us raise our voices and be their voices so that they are not invisible, let us stop this atrocity.

Mr President, Commissioner, Victoire Ingabire is a Rwandan politician with a strong technical and intellectual background – I know her personally, I know her mother, her children and her family – who, in 2010, returned to Rwanda to stand for Presidential elections. She was arrested, detained and imprisoned because they said she had conspired against the regime. It was a trial without guarantees and full of irregularities, according to Amnesty International, a multitude of NGOs and also the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights. We proposed it for the Sakharov Prize in 2012 and the intimidation has been constant: She was sentenced to eight years, then fifteen years, and now, in June, she has been re-imprisoned. She has no communication with her family, she is in a cell with a person convicted of murder, she cannot communicate with her lawyers and her Kenyan lawyer cannot represent her on instructions from the Bar Association under Kagame's instructions. We have to make an appeal so that together we can call for the immediate release of Victoire Ingabire. He hasn't seen his family and children in a long time. The attack on freedom of expression must be strongly condemned. In the party she presides over there are many dead and many missing, and there is a constant attack on freedom of expression and political persecution. I appeal to the international community not to give up trying to make any relationship with Rwanda possible if it does not return to the path of human rights.

Madam President, Commissioner, cultural and linguistic diversity throughout the European Union and respect for persons belonging to minorities are founding values of our Union. Ensuring the preservation and development of Europe's cultural heritage is a priority. Cohesion policy has undoubtedly been an investment instrument – one of the most important in the Union – in order to ensure that there are no differences between regions and to be able to achieve more equitable growth in the Union where economic, social and territorial cohesion is a reality. Cohesion policy is certainly not understood without the regions; it has a territorial dimension and, for this reason, an investment effort is made precisely with the regions that have the most difficulties: island, outermost, mountain and endless. As Commissioner Fitto has already said in the Committee on Regional Development itself and the Commissioner, here, much has evolved since the petition submitted by the petitioners, with great force and, moreover, in times of pandemic. With this evolution, it has opted for inclusive growth, for growth where cultural heritage and regional cultural heritage are a priority along with the participation of all civil society. Cohesion policy is the best antidote against walls, against the fragmentation of our territories. They know that I come from the Balearic Islands, I deeply love the language spoken there, the Mallorcan of the islands, but also Spanish. Languages must always be a vehicle of communication, never of confrontation. There are two enemies of tongues: those who impose them and those who forbid them, and also those who market with them.

Madam President, Commissioner, our Union is a Union for freedom, equality, dignity and non-discrimination. There can never be justice without the protection of the most vulnerable. The right to non-discrimination is never optional. We cannot be neutral in the face of hatred. Prohibiting and limiting expressions of diversity is a direct attack on fundamental rights, which are not concessions of any State, they are constitutional guarantees that no one can ever suppress. I want to make very clear our unwavering commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTI people around the rainbow world around the world. Restricting their rights violates the rule of law, destroys democracy, undermines freedom of expression, attacks human dignity and further stigmatizes the rainbow collective, exposing it to further discrimination. It is an attack on all of us, because it is directed at our core values. It is an attack on all humanity. That is why, Commissioner, there is an urgent need to present this European anti-discrimination rule. We trust you.