Nadia Karera, the #DiasporaVote! gender/equality employment team president, said вЂњit was planned because they targeted all the workshops that had to do with discrimination.вЂќ Members of the far-right group reportedly also posted pictures of FEMYSO participants online, with hashtags like #StopImmigration. Similar incidents happened during workshops hosted by FEMYSO, which brought young Muslims to Strasbourg from over 14 countries.ДЄccording to a statement released after EYE, at the end of an anti-discrimination panel, вЂњdisgusting Islamophobic rhetoric was shouted in the microphone directed to the moderator.вЂќ вЂњIt was really to simply ask questions and to let the audience give their answers, and realise themselves that they might know a lot more about what racism truly is, but maybe it wasnвЂ™t verbalised before.вЂќ вЂњAt no point did we ever impose our own ideas about what racism or discrimination was to us,вЂќ Welch explained. вЂњOn the other hand, several Members of the ID Group voiced their concern that FEMYSO, an organisation linked to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, gets invited by the European Parliament and gets the opportunity to use its usual tactics and play the victim card in order to silence other people,вЂќ he added. вЂњThe ID Group will not comment on allegations that are not substantiated,вЂќ the parliamentary factionsвЂ™ secretary-general Philip Claeys told EURACTIV in emailed comments. We demand accountability from the /a8dNH7IspL We stand with our friends and partners and рџ¤ќThere is no place for hate among us. We condemn the abuse targeted at participants of the European Youth Event #EYE2021 в›”пёЏ вЂњWe noticed that they were purposely making us see that they were there to oppose whatever we had to say even before they were ready to listen,вЂќ Welch said. Welch said the organiser asked participants to discuss their personal experiences with racism, if they felt comfortable doing so.

Many participants were visiting the Parliament for the first time, according to a statement from the group.ДЄccording to Chaka Welch, a #DiasporaVote! organiser, far-right students shouted racist slogans, including вЂњEurope is white and Christian!вЂќ during the вЂњCheck Your Bias: Become an anti-racist allyвЂќ workshop on 9 October. Members of #DiasporaVote! came to Strasbourg from various countries and ethnic backgrounds across Europe.

Others reportedly engaged in targeted harassment of specific young people on Twitter. Portuguese women have had the legal right to an abortion paid for by the state up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy since it was approved by a referendum in 2007.Д«efore then, women faced up to three years in prison for having an abortion, except in cases of rape or if there was danger to the health of the mother or foetus.*Updates with comments from MEP Catherine GrisetДЇar-right youth delegations harassed members of ethnic and racial minority groups at this yearвЂ™s European Youth Event (EYE), held at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 8-9 October.Д®very two years, thousands of young people gather at the event to share their ideas on вЂњequality, inclusiveness and sustainability.вЂќ But students invited by the far-right Identity & Democracy Party (ID) allegedly joined and disrupted workshops hosted by #DiasporaVote! and theВ Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations ( FEMYSO). вЂњThe final session of the legislature was exploited вЂ¦ to humiliate Portuguese women,вЂќ said Greens MP Heloisa Apolonia.Д«ut Carlos Abreu Amorim, a member of the governing Social Democrats (PSD), argued that the changes were вЂњnot a question of removing the right to abortion, but to improve the conditions in which women take these difficult decisionsвЂќ.ДЄbortion remains a controversial subject in majority Catholic Portugal, where it has faced vocal opposition from the Church. The parliament also adopted other amendments to the abortion law, including a requirement that women get psychological and social counselling and advice on family planning before ending a pregnancy.

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