22/08/2014 | Prizes
The Selection Panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, chaired by PACE President Anne Brasseur and comprising six independent figures, will meet in Prague to determine a shortlist of three nominees from among the candidatures received.
10/04/2014 | Prizes
The 2014 Europe Prize – the highest level of the Prize which is awarded each year by the Parliamentary Assembly to the town most active in promoting the European ideal – has been awarded to the town of Słupsk in Poland.
20/01/2014 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly today issued a call for nominations for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which will be awarded for the second consecutive year on 29 September next in Strasbourg.
26/09/2013 | Prizes
The first ever Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – is to be awarded at a special ceremony on the opening day of the PACE's autumn plenary session.
26/08/2013 | Prizes
Ales Bialiatski (Belarus), the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (Georgia) and the Rights Defence Network (China), are the three candidates shortlisted in Prague today for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. The selection panel, comprising six independent figures and chaired by Jean-Claude Mignon, PACE President, drew up its shortlist on the basis of 27 candidatures which fulfilled the criteria for the Prize.
22/08/2013 | Prizes
The Selection Panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, chaired by PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, comprising six independent figures known for expertise in the field of human rights, will meet on 26 August 2013 in the Vaclav Havel Library in Prague to determine the three nominees which will be shortlisted from the candidatures received.
20/08/2013 | Prizes
A delegation of parliamentarians, led by the Vice-Chairperson of the PACE Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize, Axel Fischer (Germany, EPP/CD), today presented the 2013 Europe prize to the Mayor of the Hungarian town of Tata, József Michl, on the occasion of the Hungarian National Day.
27/06/2013 | Prizes
Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development and Sir Alan Meale (United Kingdom, SOC), Chairperson of the PACE Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize, today presented the 2013 European Diploma to the mayors of 26 prize-winning municipalities, at a ceremony at Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg.
14/05/2013 | Prizes
Wojciech Sawicki, the PACE Secretary General, has issued a call for nominations for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which will be awarded for the first time on 30 September next in Strasbourg.
24/04/2013 | Prizes
The 2013 Europe Prize – awarded each year by the PACE to towns or cities most active in promoting the European ideal – has been awarded jointly to the towns of Altötting in Germany and Tata in Hungary.
25/03/2013 | Prizes
The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which aims to reward outstanding civil society action in the defence of human rights in Europe and beyond, was launched today at a ceremony in Prague (Czech Republic).
21/08/2012 | Prizes
A delegation of parliamentarians, led by the Chairman of the PACE Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize, Sir Alan Meale (United Kingdom, SOC), presented today the 2012 Europe prize to Sighişoara’s Mayor, Ioan Dorin Dăneşan, during a ceremony. The 2012 Europe Prize has been awarded jointly to the town of Sighişoara and the Italian town of Corciano, for which the award ceremony will be held on 12 August.