14/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“The purpose of my mandate is to assist Interpol in improving the effectiveness of its procedures aimed at ensuring respect for human rights,” said Bernd Fabritius at the opening of a hearing organised by the committee in Paris.
13/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE Committee on Legal Affairs meeting today in Paris, said that that effective protection of foreign investments “requires reliable, efficient and neutral dispute resolution mechanisms”.
13/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
According to the parliamentarians meeting today in Paris, “it is crucially important for a detainee to have access to a lawyer from the outset of the detention in order to guarantee that the rights of defence are practical and effective".
29/11/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Andrea Rigoni, Rapporteur on the situation in Belarus and Alain Destexhe, Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee, have expressed deep concern at press reports according to executions in Belarus.
24/11/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“I am shocked that Japan, an observer State with the Council of Europe, continues to apply the capital punishment”, declared Alain Destexhe, President of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.
17/11/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
I regret that the Russian Federation announced its intention to withdraw its signature from the Rome Statute, said Alain Destexhe, rapporteur charged with the follow-up to the report on co-operation with the International Criminal Court.
10/10/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, the Committee on Legal Affairs reaffirmed its commitment to the right to life and reiterated that abolition is a precondition for membership of the Council of Europe.
08/09/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee reaffirmed its full support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), the first ever permanent independent judicial body able to try people accused of the most serious crimes.
06/09/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Both in Crimea and in the conflict zone in the Donbas region, serious human rights violations have occurred and are still occurring, Marieluise Beck said when presenting her report today to the committee.
07/06/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"Too many restrictions on NGOs carrying out activities in public policy affairs have been imposed in certain Council of Europe member States, mostly by preventing them from receiving funding from abroad", said Yves Cruchten.
31/05/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two rapporteurs have strongly condemned the three executions carried out in the Gaza Strip by Hamas.“These executions are a clear violation of the Palestinian National Council’s ‘Partnership for democracy’ with the Assembly", they said.
27/05/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Bernd Fabritius, rapporteur on “Strengthening the rule of law in South-East European countries through targeted reform of the legal system”, has praised the work of Romania’s National Anti-corruption Directorate.