26/04/2022 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Mykola Gnatovskyy as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine. Mr Gnatovskyy, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office...
25/11/2021 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for Poland of the Monitoring Committee, Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson (Sweden, SOC) and Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), have today expressed their deep concern at yesterday’s ruling by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal that Article 6 (1) of the European Convention on Human...
29/09/2021 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today called for an ambitious new legal framework, both at national and European level, to anchor “the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment” and presented a draft of an additional protocol to the European Convention...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Katerina Šimáčková as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Czech Republic. Mrs Šimáčková, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Diana Scobioală as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Republic of Moldova. Mrs Scobioală, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Mikhail Borisovich Lobov as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Russian Federation. Mr Lobov, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for...
09/09/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Social Affairs Committee is urging an ambitious new legal framework, both at national and European level, to “anchor the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment” – and has presented a draft of an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights which would...
22/06/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Davor Derenčinović as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Croatia. Mr Derenčinović, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...
26/01/2021 | Session
PACE has urged authorities in Poland and the Republic of Moldova to take a series of steps to uphold the rule of law and ensure judicial independence. Approving a resolution based on a report by Andrea Orlando (Italy, SOC), the Assembly condemned “the campaign of intimidation waged by the...
26/01/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Andreas Zünd as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Switzerland. Mr Zünd, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected a judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office of...
26/01/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Ioannis Ktistakis as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Greece. Mr Ktistakis, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office of...
25/01/2021 | Session
Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has underlined the importance of the Organisation’s two key conventions: the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Social Charter. Addressing a hybrid session of the Parliamentary Assembly, she described them as comprising the “soul...