Parliamentarians Platform for Victims’ Rights
Leave No Victim Behind: Building Safe, Cohesive and Resilient Societies
WHY SHOULD YOU SIGN UP?
Every year around 75 million people in the EU – 15% percent of its citizens – suffer serious crimes. Murder, sexual violence, domestic violence, hate crime, online crime, terrorism, assaults and more.
Crime can, and often does, destroy people’s lives. Its impact on victims affects our economies, overloads our health systems, damages the futures of our children and contributes to an increasingly divided society. Unsurprisingly, even as we face serious economic, environmental and international challenges, crime remains a high priority for citizens – above unemployment, health and taxes (standard Eurobarometer 100, 2023)
As a signatory to the ‘Leave No Victim Behind’ Pledge, MEPs make a commitment to:
- Ensure victims are included and at the center of the European Parliament response to crime, security, and justice, and reflected across all EU policies including mental health, education, economy, digitalization, and global affairs;
- Strengthen the rights and services for all victims of crime in Europe;
- Help MEPs on developing new models, measures, and solutions, to improve and implement rights for victims of crime;
- Engage with elected MEPs in the 10th parliamentary term.
To sign the pledge, please download the below form and return via email to communications@victimsupporteurope.eu
SIGNATORIES
Austria
Andreas Schieder – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament/Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs
Elisabeth Grossmann – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament/Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs
Thomas Waitz – Group of the Greens/Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative
Belgium
Liesbet Sommen – Christian Democratic and Flemish
Saskia Bricmont – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Cyprus
Giorgos Georgiou – The Left in the European Parliament/Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL)
Finland
Merja Kyllönen – The Left in the European Parliament/Left Alliance
Germany
Katrin Langensiepen – Group of the Greens/Bündnis 90 – Die Grünen
Maria Noichl – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament/Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
Portugal
Catarina Martins – The Left in the European Parliament/Bloco de Esquerda
