Hello and welcome everyone to our podcast on human rights in Europe.

I'm Mira and I'm very pleased to be the moderator for our podcast series on abortion rights in Europe.

I'm very pleased to kick off the first episode with

the member of the European Parliament, Irene Toleret. You are member of the European Parliament in 2019

and you originally come from the south of France on the Mediterranean sea coast near Montpellier.

So I'm very happy to have you here today.

You're a member of a Renew Europe, which is for those who are not familiar with European parties,

is a very pro-European party which fights for freedom and civil rights.

You're equally member of the Regional Development Committee and for delegations for relations with Japan.

But the most important thing is your position in FEM, which is a committee on women's rights and gender equality.

So to kick off the podcast, I would like to ask you, what is your vision of Europe as a member of the European Parliament?

Hello, everybody, and I will give an aspirational answer.

I think that Europe is a dream come true and that it needs, especially in these days and

ages, a lot of hard work inside the European Parliament to make sure that the dream come true of the founders still

delivers on an everyday basis on human rights.

Okay, great. So yeah, human rights, specifically women's rights is the topic today.

I would just like to elaborate on your recent parliamentary activity regarding women's rights and especially reproductive rights.

So in June 2021, you contributed to the debate on reproductive and sexual health and rights in the Union,

asking your peer parliament members to vote on the Pedrake Fred Matrix report, aiming at making abortion freely

accessible for more than 15 million women, which is still on half-accesses to free abortion.

And also more recently in October 2021, you asked your colleagues to vote on a resolution during

the plenary debate in Strasbourg, which sets out the right to abortion

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