20/12/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marina Schuster, General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty, and Andres Herkel, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, condemned the death sentence passed on 26 November, but which only became known this week.
19/12/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pieter Omtzigt, PACE rapporteur on “Keeping criminal and political responsibility separate”, denounced the bill adopted by the Romanian parliament on 10 December effectively decriminalizing corruption by public officials.
13/12/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Mexican national Edgar Tamayo Arias was sentenced to death in a trial marred by substandard defense. PACE Rapporteur Marina Schuster appeals to United States to implement the judgment of the International Court of Justice.
12/12/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Legal Affairs Committee has called on signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights to respect any “interim measures” ordered by the Strasbourg Court, and to provide it with all information and evidence it requests.
12/12/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Adopting a report by James Clappison, the committee unanimously agreed to recommend that the Committee of Ministers resumes work on the revision of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television.
29/11/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Mailis Reps, rapporteur on “Strengthening the protection and role of human rights defenders in Council of Europe Member States”, has just ended a series of fact-finding visits to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan (20-29 November 2013).
06/11/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Expressing concern at the "absolute legal immunity" that some international organisations are entitled to, the committee said such organisations should be subject to binding mechanisms to monitor their compliance with human rights norms.
06/11/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In order to strengthen “the constructive criticism the Assembly needs to send”, the Standing Committee adopted amendments to the opinion on the draft Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs.
06/11/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD) has been appointed by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights to lead PACE's inquiry into "massive eavesdropping in Europe", following Edward Snowden revelations.
02/10/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The report by Boriss Cilevičs adopted by the Committee notes that the trend in several Council of Europe member states in recent years has been to make it more difficult to acquire nationality.
06/09/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marina Schuster has called on the authorities in Oklahoma not to execute Anthony Rozelle Banks. "Oklahoma remains one of the states which carry out the highest number of executions..."
04/09/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
An Assembly committee has urged the competent Russian authorities to fully investigate the circumstances and background of the death of Russian tax and accountancy expert Sergei Magnitsky, and the possible criminal responsibility...