08/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
To mark Human Rights Day 2017, Olena Sotnyk (Ukraine, ALDE), Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has called for Council of Europe member States to renew their commitment to the organisation’s basic standards as...
24/11/2017 | Standing Committee
'The Convention system has done a remarkable job in promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law across Europe. Yet, at the same time, the system is not perfect,' said Ulla Tørnæs, Denmark's Minister for Development Co-operation, representing the Danish Chairmanship of the Committee of...
31/10/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Raphaël Comte (Switzerland, ALDE), who is preparing a report for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “State of emergency: proportionality issues concerning derogations under Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights”, is to make a fact-finding visit to Turkey...
08/06/2017 | Parliamentary support
Within the framework of the Partnership for Good Governance (PGG)*, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will organise a second regional seminar for the six partnership countries on the role of national parliaments in implementing the standards of the European Convention on...
06/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Strasbourg, 06.04.2017 - Raphaël Comte (Switzerland, ALDE), who is preparing a report for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “State of emergency: proportionality issues concerning derogations under Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights”, is to make a...
18/05/2016 | President
PACE President Pedro Agramunt has warned that the European Convention on Human Rights – which he described as the “gold standard” of human rights protection – could collapse if states “pick and choose” which judgments of the Strasbourg Court they are ready to accept. Addressing Council of Europe...
26/01/2016 | Session
The Council of Europe’s Secretary General has asked parliamentarians to go home and be louder than ever in defending Europe’s human rights architecture. Speaking about the many challenges facing Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland said the European Convention on Human Rights is a shared vocabulary, the set...
25/01/2016 | Session
Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE) urged her fellow parliamentarians to deal with current challenges by drawing inspiration from the founding values of the Council of Europe – the European Convention on Human Rights – as she presented the progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee...
11/01/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Examples of the positive impact that the European Convention on Human Rights has so far had within the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, parties to the Convention, have been compiled in an information document upon the request of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ (France, SOC), Rapporteur on the...
03/12/2015 | News
“Terrorism has struck defenceless people, and human rights are first and foremost something that embody people’s actual lives before being the abstract principles of our system. People do not have rights, they are human rights in themselves, and any affront to or violence against a person...
30/11/2015 | News
The Italian delegation to PACE is organising a conference “The Conscience of Europe” to mark the 65th anniversary of the signature of the European Convention on Human Rights in Rome on 1 December. In the presence of the President of the Republic, the Chairperson of the Italian delegation to...
26/03/2015 | President
Speaking at the opening of a high-level conference on the “Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights: our shared responsibility” in Brussels today, PACE President Anne Brasseur reaffirmed the key role of the Parliamentary Assembly and its members to ensure that European Convention...