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The theme of migration and asylum in the election campaign and the consequences on the welcoming and rights of migrants
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Committee warns against increasing instrumentalisation of the theme of migration and asylum in election...

21/09/2023 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

The Migration Committee, meeting today in Reykjavik, expressed its concern at the increasing instrumentalisation of the theme of migration and asylum in election campaigns, often reduced to security matters. A partial and biased treatment of this theme legitimises political programmes aimed at...

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PACE co-rapporteurs to make monitoring visit to Albania

20/09/2023 | Monitoring

Asim Mollazada (Azerbaijan, EC/DA) and Ionut Stroe (Romania, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Albania, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 25 to 28 September 2023. Discussions...

Heritable genome editing in human beings
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PACE committee calls for strict ban on pregnancies with genetically modified human embryos

20/09/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

Unanimously adopting a draft recommendation, based on the report prepared by Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development urged member States to impose a comprehensive ban on “establishing a pregnancy with germline cells, their...

Preserving the mental health and well-being of young people in the face of multiple crises and an age of uncertainties
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Preserving the mental health and well-being of young people in the face of multiple crises and an age of...

20/09/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

The restrictions imposed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic have had “a devastating effect” on the mental health and well-being of children and young adults – affected in particular by disruption in education, social isolation and economic instability – according to the Committee on Social Affairs...

Taliban's persecution of Afghan women and girls
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PACE committee strongly condemns Taliban's persecution of Afghan women and girls, calls for urgent action...

20/09/2023 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons strongly condemned the systematic persecution of women and girls decided on by the Taliban. They called on member States to respect UNHCR’s non-return advisory applying to Afghanistan, but also to Iran and Pakistan, which host more than...

PACE President Tiny Kox
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Military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh: PACE President calls on Azerbaijan to cease fire immediately

19/09/2023 | President

The President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), Tiny Kox, today made the following statement: "I am deeply shocked by the decision of the government of Azerbaijan to launch a new and aggressive military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh earlier today. In the space of hours this...

Sofia, Bulgaria

Bulgaria: post-monitoring visit by PACE co-rapporteurs

15/09/2023 | Monitoring

Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC) and Deborah Bergamini (Italy, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a fact-finding visit to Bulgaria on 18-19 September, in the context of the post-monitoring dialogue with this country. During their visit...

Hearing on the issue of consent in gender-based violence

‘No means no’: hearing on the question of consent in gender-based violence

15/09/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

"It was while accompanying victims in court that I realised that the French Criminal Code did not protect victims," Catherine Le Magueresse, Associate Researcher at the Sorbonne’s Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique, said today at the opening of a hearing on "Gender-based violence...

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PACE general rapporteur concerned by ongoing treatment of Vladimir Kara-Murza

14/09/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

PACE’s General Rapporteur for Political Prisoners, Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), has expressed deep concern at the ongoing treatment of Russian opposition politician and historian Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was also the winner of the 2022 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. “Last week the Russian...

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Violence against women with disabilities: raising a taboo subject

14/09/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

Violence against women with disabilities, whether physical, sexual, structural, psychological or economic, remains a taboo subject, underlined the PACE Committee on Equality. “Society infantilises women with disabilities by not allowing them to make informed choices about their lives, including...

International Day of Democracy
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Democracy as a precondition for peace and prosperity

13/09/2023 | Political Affairs and Democracy

Ahead of the International Day of Democracy (15 September), PACE Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy adopted the following statement: “Democracy is a universal value, the cornerstone of free and prosperous societies and a precondition for peace. The Russian Federation’s war of aggression...

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Monitoring Committee takes stock of the honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by France

13/09/2023 | Monitoring

The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today took stock of the honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by France. Recalling France’s longstanding democratic tradition and its commitment to respect for human rights, the committee...