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Armenia: PACE monitors express concern at the high level of tension between institutions

31/01/2020 | News

“We are very concerned by the high level of tension between two State institutions in Armenia, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Presidency of the Constitutional Court,” say PACE monitors Andrej Šircelj and Kimmo Kiljunen.

70 years of PACE – and the women behind its greatest successes

06/12/2019 | News

A new short film which revisits the high points in the 70-year history of the PACE, with a special focus on the women who contributed to the Assembly’s success, has just premièred in Strasbourg.

‘Ensuring human rights, the rule of law and democracy is a never-ending task. Let us not allow them to...

25/10/2019 | News

“Ensuring human rights, the rule of law and democracy is a never-ending task. We must defend them again and again, promote them and continue to develop them", the PACE President said closing the European Conference.

Harassment: parliamentarians urged to ‘lead by example’

25/10/2019 | News

Sexual violence and harassment in parliaments is not a woman’s issue alone, Storting President Tona Wilhelmsen Trøen has said, but constitutes “a threat to democracy” which must be taken seriously by both women and men.

Liliane Maury Pasquier: ‘Without commitment and political will, our Common Home is in danger of fracturing’

24/10/2019 | News

"“We have been building our Common Home for 70 years now and yet, if we do not show commitment and political will, it runs the risk of fracturing”, Liliane Maury Pasquier said at the opening of the Conference of Presidents.

Richard Ferrand: ‘The Council of Europe must respond to the real concerns of citizens’

24/10/2019 | News

“In order to continue to have real added value, the Council of Europe must continue to adapt to new challenges posed in the human rights field to respond to the real concerns of citizens,” said Richard Ferrand.

Marina Carobbio: ‘Let's commit ourselves every day to safeguard and protect our achievements’

24/10/2019 | News

“We must not take for granted everything that has been done to defend the Europe of peace, human rights and democracy, but commit ourselves every day to safeguard and protect these gains,” said Marina Carobbio.

Gabriela Cuevas: ‘The UN 2030 Agenda is probably the most ambitious challenge facing humanity’

24/10/2019 | News

The United Nations 2030 Agenda “is probably the most ambitious challenge facing humanity”, today said Gabriela Cuevas Barron, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, introducing Theme 2 of the Conference.

Following prisoner exchange, Volodymyr Tsemakh ‘must remain available’ to MH17 investigators

09/09/2019 | News

The Chair of PACE's Legal Affairs Committee has welcomed the prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia but says Volodymyr Tsemakh must "remain available" to the Dutch authorities investigating the downing of flight MH17.

PACE rapporteurs strongly condemn death sentences issued in Jordan

21/02/2019 | News

Titus Corlăţean and Mogens Jensen strongly condemn the death sentences recently issued in Jordan and call on the Jordanian authorities "not to implement any death sentence".

Rapporteur condemns death sentences in Gaza, urges Hamas to stay executions

06/12/2018 | News

Yves Cruchten, Parliamentary Assembly rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has strongly condemned six death sentences issued by a military tribunal in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on 3 December.

Parliamentary Network on Diaspora Policies to hold its next regional conference in Kyiv

21/09/2018 | News

PACE's Network on Diaspora Policies is organising a regional conference in Kyiv on 24 September, focusing on the role of diaspora associations and their synergies with public authorities as a platform for co-operation.