01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A PACE hearing on sanctions against persons on the ‘Kara-Murza list’ was organised by the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights in Paris today, in the context of the report being prepared by PACE rapporteur Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) on this topic. The event heard from a number of...
01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Council of Europe should establish a “mediation process” to help member states resolve post-conflict disputes and find “reparations and remedies” which would defuse tension, overcome past divisions and work towards a common peaceful future, a PACE committee has proposed. Approving a draft...
01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In an information note declassified on 1st December by the Legal Affairs Committee, Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), outlined possible ways for PACE and national parliamentarians to become more actively engaged in promoting the timely and effective implementation of judgments of the...
30/11/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The PACE General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), and PACE General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people, Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), have condemned today’s decision of the Russian Supreme Court to outlaw the...
22/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan”; Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on media freedom and safety of journalists; and Sunna Aevarsdottir (Iceland, SOC), PACE General...
15/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE General Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), has condemned the Russian President for pardoning a man responsible for his participation in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an independent Russian journalist and human rights...
14/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Davor Stier (Croatia, EPP/CD), the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s rapporteur on the legal and human rights aspects of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, has sent the following message to the 'core group' of 38 countries willing to establish a special tribunal for the crime of...
20/10/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty Aleksandar Nikoloski (North Macedonia, EPP/CD) reacted today to a new death sentence in Belarus: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms yesterday’s judgment of the Minsk Regional Court, sentencing Aleksandr Taratuta (convicted of...
16/10/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The General Rapporteur on Political Prisoners of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), has condemned the searches and subsequent detention of Alexei Navalny’s lawyers, and called for their release. “According to reports, the homes of Vadim...
12/10/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A livestreamed public hearing on "The human rights and humanitarian situation of Karabakh Armenians and the international obligations of Azerbaijan" took place today in Strasbourg on the margins of the Assembly's autumn plenary session. Participants included: * Thomas de Waal, scholar and writer...
10/10/2023 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is to create a “recurring contact platform” for dialogue with representatives of Russian democratic opposition forces who share Council of Europe values, fully respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and condemn Russia’s war of aggression...
09/10/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On the eve of the 21st World Day against the Death Penalty (10 October), PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty Aleksandar Nikoloski (North Macedonia, EPP/CD) made the following statement: “As stated in the Preamble to Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human...