25/01/2023 | Women@PACE
To mark World Education Day (24 January), the Women@PACE group today expressed its solidarity with women and girls in Afghanistan who are barred from receiving an education. “Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the situation of women and girls in the country has severely...
25/01/2023 | Session
According to PACE, the recourse to digital public health technologies must be part of a comprehensive national epidemiological strategy, “balancing all interests at stake” and “based on an evaluation of its real effectiveness”. PACE recalled that over the past two years, governments and private...
25/01/2023 | Session
“I asked for this debate, because I think it is important that the Council of Europe keep an eye on and keep abreast of the tensions that there are in Europe. Nobody who has looked at Serbia and Kosovo over recent months can believe that there are no tensions. There are tensions. We need, very...
25/01/2023 | Session
Measures to prevent marital captivity and ensure effective solutions for victims are urgently needed, the Parliamentary Assembly said, by adopting a resolution today, on the basis of the report by Margreet De Boer (Netherlands, SOC), The adopted text indicates that persons trapped in marital...
25/01/2023 | Session
Men and boys can play an important role in combating gender-based violence by being agents of change and “speaking out against harmful practices, acting as role models and challenging sexism”, PACE has said. Adopting a resolution based on a report by Petra Stienen (Netherlands, ALDE), the...
24/01/2023 | Session
Speaking to the Parliamentary Assembly, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has called on member states to reaffirm their commitment to the core values of the Council of Europe at the upcoming summit of heads of state and government, which in particular means all member states respecting...
24/01/2023 | Session
PACE today strongly condemned conflict-related sexual violence, which is “a war crime in international law”, can be a constitutive element of genocide, and is used as a means of ethnic cleansing. However, the parliamentarians believe that this phenomenon is not an inevitable consequence of war...
24/01/2023 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Iceland. Ms Arnardóttir, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...
24/01/2023 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Anne Louise Haahr Bormann as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Denmark. Ms Bormann, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...
24/01/2023 | Session
The Partnership for Democracy introduced in 2010 has reached its primary goal of establishing structured and value-based co-operation with the parliaments of neighbouring countries willing to perform a rapprochement with the Assembly on the basis of shared values, according to PACE’s Committee on...
24/01/2023 | Session
In her speech to the Parliamentary Assembly Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić said “Ukraine must take centre stage” at the Council of Europe Summit on 16-17 May in Reykjavik. Stressing that “accountability for the death and destruction caused by Russian aggression is vital”, she restated...
23/01/2023 | President
Tiny Kox, re-elected today for a second one-year term as President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), thanked members for their ongoing support this year, which – he said – “may be as challenging as last year”. In a speech following his re-election, he underlined that last...