10/10/2023 | Session
PACE today expressed its concern about the increase in recent years of far-right violence, driven by xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance, stressing that a number of member States consider forms of far-right terrorism “the fastest growing or most prominent domestic security threat...
10/10/2023 | Session
The Assembly today took stock of the honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by France. Recalling France’s longstanding democratic tradition and its commitment to respect for human rights, the Assembly said it was following “with interest” the experiments with participatory...
09/10/2023 | President
“While we are gathering here representing people of our member States and associate States, the peoples in our area are confronted with the harsh reality of natural and man-made disasters, earthquakes, floods, fires and tensions, confrontations and open violence. This includes the suffering of...
09/10/2023 | Prizes
The eleventh Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – has been awarded to imprisoned Turkish human rights defender, philanthropist and civil society activist Osman Kavala. The 60,000-euro prize was presented at a special...
09/10/2023 | Session
PACE today elected, at the opening of its Autumn 2023 Session, Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş as a new Vice-President of the Assembly in respect of Türkiye. Nineteen Vice-Presidents are elected annually at the beginning of an ordinary session and remain in office until the opening of the next session...
09/10/2023 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly, during its autumn plenary session, held a current affairs debate on “the situation in the North of Kosovo* following the recent attack and the need for de-escalation”. Lord David Blencathra (United Kingdom, EC/DA) opened the debate. 28 speakers took the floor during...
09/10/2023 | Session
The follow-up to the Reykjavik Summit; the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Dublin; the list of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Serbia; the lists of candidates to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) in...
23/06/2023 | Session
A joint urgent debate on the political consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, was a highlight of the Summer plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
23/06/2023 | Session
Digital technologies have become increasingly present in all aspects of our lives, offering tremendous progress and opportunities. However, for those who do not have access to such technologies or who are unable to use them, the digital divide has emerged as a major barrier to equality...
23/06/2023 | Session
PACE has condemned all forms of transnational repression – the assassination, intimidation or harassment by a state of its perceived enemies living abroad – as a growing threat to the rule of law and human rights. Approving a report on the topic by Sir Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EC/DA...
22/06/2023 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its constituent sports bodies to maintain the position expressed in 2022, and to prohibit the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris Olympic and Paralympic...
22/06/2023 | Session
PACE considers that one of the main political consequences of the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine is “that it has forged a renewed bond amongst democracies in support of Ukraine”. According to the parliamentarians, the Reykjavik Summit is the expression of this unity around...