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PACE President makes working visit to France

17/03/2023 | President

Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to France on 22 March. In Paris, he will meet the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Speaker of the Senate, the Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs...

Trade agreements should also be used to protect the environment and human rights, says PACE committee

17/03/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

New trade and investment agreements should contain comprehensive provisions on sustainable development and the protection of fundamental rights, with strong enforcement which is commensurate with protecting investors, PACE’s Social Affairs Committee has said. Approving a report by Geraint Davies...

Poland: PACE monitor urges all political parties to set aside narrow party interest and address the rule of...

17/03/2023 | Monitoring

Ending a three-day visit to Warsaw, one of the two co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Poland, Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), has called on all political parties to set aside narrow party political interest in order to overcome...

Preventing, anticipating and dealing with natural disasters

17/03/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

At a time when major hazards are becoming more numerous and more violent because of the Anthropocene, the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development called on States to be aware of the need to prevent, anticipate, take into account and monitor natural disasters, and to...

Sixteen ways to integrate migrants and refugees to the benefit of all

15/03/2023 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

PACE’s Migration Committee has set out sixteen approaches that Council of Europe member states can take to integrate migrants and refugees in a way which encourages “a sense of togetherness” and minimises fear and resentment towards people arriving from other countries. In a draft resolution...

The EU Migration and Asylum Pact must make European solidarity a priority

15/03/2023 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

Ahead of the European Council (23-24 March), the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons recalled the importance of European solidarity to facilitate the reception of migrants and refugees. In a declaration adopted today, it urged European Union institutions to allocate means for...

The role and responsibility of parliamentarians in supporting the Istanbul Convention

14/03/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

On 13 March PACE's Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, the Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence and the British delegation to PACE organised a peer seminar at the Palace of Westminster in London, where parliamentarians from the United Kingdom and Ukraine compared the...

Petra Bayr: ‘anti-Muslim racism endangers its direct targets, but also other minority groups and society as...

14/03/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

On the eve of the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance, made the following statement: On 15 March 2019, 51 Muslim people were killed and 40 injured in mass shootings perpetrated in two mosques in Christchurch...

PACE to observe the presidential election in Montenegro

13/03/2023 | Election observation

A 20-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Joseph O'Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), will travel to Montenegro from 17 to 20 March to observe the conduct of the presidential election on 19 March, alongside observers from the European Parliament and the...

PACE rapporteur to make monitoring visit to Poland

09/03/2023 | Monitoring

Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), one of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Poland, will make a fact-finding visit to Warsaw from 13 to 15 March. This visit will mainly focus on judicial reforms, the independence of the...

Equal rights for women and girls: the role of men and boys

08/03/2023 | President

Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Committee of Ministers Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, President of the Parliamentary Assembly Tiny Kox and Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić have made the following statement: “Today, on International Women’s Day, we...

Promoting the inclusion of girls and women in the digital and new technology sectors

08/03/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

According to Marjan Hammersma, Dutch Vice-Minister of Education, Culture and Science, women and girls are still under-represented in science, technology and engineering education and careers, even though they are frontrunners of the climate movements and advocacy for a green and digital future...