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...
07/05/2010 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Strasbourg, 07.05.2010 - Christos Pourgourides (Cyprus, EPP/CD), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, has ended a two-day visit to Bucharest (5-6 May 2010) with a call to the Romanian...
19/03/2010 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Strasbourg, 18.03.2010 – The EU should accede to the European Convention on Human Rights “within a couple of years”, with negotiations beginning no later than July this year, a Vice-Chair of PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee has told a European Parliament hearing in Brussels. Serhiy Holovaty...
15/01/2010 | President
Statement by Micheline Calmy-Rey, Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers and Lluís Maria de Puig, President of the Parliamentary Assembly Strasbourg, 15.01.2010 - “We welcome the approval, for ratification, of Protocol No. 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights by the Russian State...
15/05/2009 | President
Strasbourg, 15.05.2009 – A concrete proposal to inscribe “the right to a healthy environment” into the European system of human rights protection is to be debated in September by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), its President announced yesterday. Addressing the Nevsky...
09/06/2008 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Strasbourg, 09.06.2008 -“Member states parliaments should be more rigorous in ensuring regular verification of the compatibility of their legislation with European human rights convention standards ” declared Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc (Netherlands, EPP/CD) in a keynote speech today at a...
05/06/2008 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc (Netherlands, EPP/CD) will represent the PACE Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the colloquy “Towards stronger implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights” at national level, organised under the Swedish Chairmanship of the Committee of...