31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
The Parliamentary Assembly has invited all Council of Europe member States, and in particular those with the highest rates of imprisonment, to vigorously promote the use of non-custodial sentences.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting in Yerevan, decided to make amendments to its monitoring procedure based on proposals by Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD), rapporteur on this subject.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
On the occasion of its meeting in Yerevan on 31 May 2013, the PACE Standing Committee declared: “The search for a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a commitment taken by Armenia and by Azerbaijan".
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
Faced with the desire of many member States to impose a biennial budget based on zero nominal growth, and following the proposals by the rapporteur Rudy Salles, the Assembly agreed to reduce its expenditure for 2014 and 2015.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
European governments should actively encourage men to take up parental leave, the Parliamentary Assembly has said. In a resolution voted today, based on a report by Andrea Rigoni (Italy, ALDE), PACE’s Standing Committee said parental leave schemes should enable parents, irrespective of their sex, to look after their children on an equal footing.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the PACE decided today in Yerevan that if a committee chair or vice-chair falls vacant in the course of a session, a former chairperson or vice-chairperson of that committee who has served two complete terms may be elected for an incomplete term until the end of that session (this decision will not apply to sub-committees).
23/05/2013 | Standing Committee
PACE Standing Committee meeting will be held in Yerevan on Friday 31 May 2013 under the Armenian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers. On this occasion, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon will hold high-level meetings with the President of the Republic Serzh Sargsyan...
08/03/2013 | Standing Committee
PACE has called for more rigorous procedures – at both national and international level – for selecting experts who sit on the Council of Europe’s principal human rights monitoring mechanisms, such as its anti-torture and anti-racism bodies, or those dealing with social rights and national minorities.
08/03/2013 | Standing Committee
In a resolution adopted today by the Standing Committee meeting in Paris, the Assembly has made a series of practical recommendations to member States with a view to preserving Europe’s industrial heritage. To ensure that such protection is effective, the PACE has proposed that a European label for industrial heritage be developed.
05/03/2013 | Standing Committee
Debates on the industrial heritage in Europe, and on reinforcing the selection processes for experts of key Council of Europe human rights monitoring mechanisms, will feature on the agenda of the PACE Standing Committee at its meeting in Paris on Friday 8 March 2013.
30/11/2012 | Standing Committee
“Statistics indicate an increase in the number of cases of violence against women and domestic violence,” the members of the PACE Standing Committee warned at a meeting in Andorra today. In a unanimously-adopted declaration, they called on member States to continue allocating adequate funding to shelters and assistance programmes for victims of violence...
30/11/2012 | Standing Committee
"Since taking up my duties in January 2012, I have been striving to refocus our Organisation, and the Parliamentary Assembly in particular, on its core business of upholding human rights. I am delighted that, when taking over the chairmanship, Andorra has also chosen to concentrate on the Council of Europe's original mission, to safeguard and develop human rights and fundamental freedoms," said PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon as he opened today's Standing Committee meeting in Andorra.