27/01/2014 | Parliamentary support
A second seminar on this issue, aimed at the staff of national parliaments, was held on 16-17 January 2014 in Strasbourg. It was organised in cooperation with the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and financed by the Human Rights Trust Fund. The programme included a presentation of...
12/09/2013 | Parliamentary support
A first seminar aimed at the staff of national parliaments was held on 12-13 September 2013 in Strasbourg, with the objective, in particular, to improve the knowledge of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, and on the execution of...
28/06/2013 | Session
Strasbourg, 28.06.2013 – Draft Protocol No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights may be adopted by the Committee of Ministers and opened for signature and ratification as presently drafted, according to the Parliamentary Assembly. The opinion adopted today by PACE, on the basis of the...
26/04/2013 | Session
Strasbourg, 26.04.2013 – Draft Protocol No. 15 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms can be adopted by the Committee of Ministers and opened for signature and ratification as presently drafted, without amendment, according to the Parliamentary Assembly. The...
23/04/2013 | Session
Strasbourg, 23.04.2013 - I welcome the reaching of a draft agreement on the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights and I applaud the spirit of compromise which enabled it to be concluded, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon said today, on the occasion of the PACE...
19/06/2012 | News
Strasbourg, 19.06.2012 – A joint informal body of members of the European Parliament and Council of Europe parliamentarians has welcomed the prospect of talks resuming on EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Last week the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe...
09/03/2012 | Standing Committee
25/01/2012 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Strasbourg, 25.01.2012 - Representatives of the the Parliamentary Assembly of the 47-nation Council of Europe (PACE) and the European Parliament have urged national governments – notably the UK and France – not to stand in the way of the EU signing up to the European Convention on Human Rights...
03/12/2010 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Strasbourg, 03.12.2010 - The accession by the European Union to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings would ensure that “the Convention’s high standards and human rights approach are uniformly applied throughout Europe”, today said the participants in the...
03/11/2010 | President
The European Convention on Human Rights has helped to build a Europe united from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, and now faces a new chapter in its history with EU accession and reform of the Court, PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu has said. Speaking at a...
06/10/2010 | Session
In his speech during today’s commemoration ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights, the PACE President stressed that “to this day the Convention – given shape and form during the debates in Strasbourg – remains a miracle of international legal co-operation...
02/09/2010 | President
At a joint meeting of the PACE Presidential Committee, led by its President Mevlüt Cavusoglu, and the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament in Brussels today, discussions focused on the accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights and in particular the right of...