04/02/2025 | Prizes
The first “Human Rights in Motion” Award was granted on Friday 31 January in Biarritz by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos to Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc, the directors of the documentary Papa-Tata, in the framework of the Fipadoc International Documentary Film Festival in Biarritz. The...
15/01/2025 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation, has issued a call for nominations for the 2025 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. The Prize, created in 2013, aims to reward outstanding civil society action in...
10/12/2024 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is inviting designers and graphic artists to submit designs for a plaque and logo for its recently launched “Human Rights in Motion” Award, a quarterly prize for the director of a documentary film that best promotes human rights or...
03/12/2024 | Prizes
The 2025 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to Euskararen Etxea (the House of the Basque Language) in Bilbao, Spain. The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting today. The House of the Basque Language is a...
29/11/2024 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is today issuing a call for nominations for the 2025 Vigdís Prize for Women's Empowerment, the second time the prize has been awarded. Launched in May 2023 in partnership with the Government of Iceland, the 60,000-euro annual prize...
29/11/2024 | Prizes
PACE is today launching the “Human Rights in Motion” Award, in partnership with four international film festivals across Europe, to be awarded quarterly to the director of a documentary film which best promotes “human rights or the fight for democratic values”. The 5,000-euro award will be...
03/10/2024 | President
In the second edition of “Round table with the President”, a brand-new video podcast in which PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos hosts leading figures who act to uphold Council of Europe values, 2024 Havel Prize winner María Corina Machado dedicates the award to the millions of Venezuelans who...
30/09/2024 | Prizes
The twelfth Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – has been awarded to leading Venezuelan political figure and rights defender María Corina Machado. The 60,000-euro prize was presented at a special ceremony on the opening day...
26/09/2024 | President
On the eve of an appearance before PACE in Strasbourg next week, recently released Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza has described his experience of two-and-a-half years of detention in Russia during a 20-minute conversation with PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos. In the first...
27/08/2024 | Prizes
The selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which rewards outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights in Europe and beyond, has today announced the shortlist for the 2024 Award. Meeting in Prague, the panel – made up of independent figures from the world of human...
02/05/2024 | Prizes
The selection panel of the Vigdís Prize for Women's Empowerment, which rewards outstanding initiatives to promote the empowerment of women in all their diversity in Europe and beyond, has today announced the shortlist for the first ever edition of the Award. Meeting in Reykjavík, the panel – made...
29/04/2024 | Prizes
The Selection Panel for the Vigdís Prize for Women's Empowerment, chaired by Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and composed of six independent members with recognised standing in the field of women’s empowerment, will meet on 2 May at...