25/09/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, meeting by videoconference, expressed its concern about academic freedom and institutional autonomy of higher education institutions, considering that they were under threat, ranging from the criminalisation of researchers, scholars and...
17/09/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on media freedom and the protection of journalists, has today expressed his serious concern regarding the possibility that the Parliament of Albania may adopt a number of amendments...
01/09/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on media freedom and the protection of journalists, has today strongly condemned police brutality against peaceful demonstrators in Belarus and the harsh treatment of journalists on...
23/07/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on media freedom and the protection of journalists, today expressed his serious concerns about the social media bill that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey...
22/05/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur on media freedom and the safety of journalists for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has today expressed concern over the detention of journalists, an appalling phenomenon which has been observed for many years...
15/05/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Council of Europe member States must adopt “relevant laws and sanctions to uphold the integrity of sports competitions against manipulation”, according to PACE‘s Culture Committee. This type of ‘organised crime’ can “only be tackled effectively through a common political commitment and legally...
15/05/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
As nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and the cognitive sciences converge, a PACE committee has called for “a new culture of public dialogue” on scientific advances to ensure that new technologies respect human rights. The committee makes reference to existing tools, such as...
24/04/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on media freedom and the protection of journalists, and Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC), rapporteur on “the continuing need to restore human rights and the rule of law in the North...
17/04/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach, General Rapporteur on media freedom and the safety of journalists for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, expressed concern about restrictions on press freedom in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
18/02/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach has welcomed a Turkish Constitutional Court ruling that journalist Mehmet Altan’s rights were breached when a lower court failed to release him, and ordering the payment of compensation.
14/02/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach, rapporteur on media freedom and the safety of journalists, has expressed concern over the attack perpetrated against the investigative journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Marina Dubrovina.
06/12/2019 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The 2020 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to The National Museum of Secret Surveillance “House of Leaves” (Tirana, Albania,) at a meeting in Paris today.