17/11/2022 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox today made the following statement: "The Hague District Court in the Netherlands has just ruled on the State responsibility of the Russian Federation under the European Convention on Human Rights and other international conventions concerning the downing over eastern...
15/11/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The emergence of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) – that can select and attack targets without human intervention – requires clear regulation of their development and use, to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and human rights, said the Legal Affairs Committee, by adopting...
07/11/2022 | President
“As this Forum intends to get to the heart of what has gone wrong, but also to assess the impact of the most promising initiatives presented over the last decade, let me express the hope for democracy to genuinely come back on European soil and elsewhere,” said PACE President Tiny Kox addressing...
07/11/2022 | President
Following the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ decision to hold a Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe on 16-17 May 2023 in Reykjavik, PACE President Tiny Kox made the following statement: “Our Assembly is convinced of the need for a new, 4th Summit of...
28/10/2022 | Monitoring
Following their visit to the country, PACE's rapporteurs for the honouring of membership obligations by San Marino, Viorel-Riceard Badea (Romania, EPP/CD) and Andrej Hunko (Germany, UEL) welcomed the recent reforms to strengthen the independence of the judiciary and the strengthening of the...
28/10/2022 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Türkiye, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC), welcomed the release of former HDP Member of Parliament Aysel Tuğluk. “On 12 October, the Parliamentary Assembly...
28/10/2022 | Monitoring
“We regret the failure to proceed to the election of judges to the Constitutional Court by the Parliament of Montenegro at its sitting on 21 October,” said Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE) and Nicos Tornaritis (Cyprus, EPP/CD), the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
25/10/2022 | President
“State Duma and Federation Council have given full support to the war of aggression against Ukraine and validated the recent illegal attempted annexations, after they acted in a similar way in 2014. Together with the Russian President and the Russian Government, Russian Parliament bears therefore...
25/10/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Intersex people experience discrimination in all fields of life, shaped by prejudice, ignorance, inadequate legislation and violations of their physical integrity and bodily autonomy,” said Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), the Parliamentary Assembly’s General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI...
25/10/2022 | Parliamentary support
The House of Representatives of the Parliament of Morocco together with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Kehl University of Applied Science, will organise a seminar on "The evaluation of laws by the parliamentary institution - The case of law 103.13 on combating...
20/10/2022 | Secretary General of the Assembly
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held a meeting of Secretaries General of parliament on Thursday 20 October, in the chamber of the Palais de l’Europe in Strasbourg. After welcome addresses by PACE President Tiny Kox and the PACE Secretary General Despina Chatzivassiliou...
20/10/2022 | Secretary General of the Assembly
“Thanks to your efforts and creativity, you have enabled your respective parliaments to continue to function in times of Covid and to maintain dialogue with our Parliamentary Assembly and the continuity of your work,” said PACE President Tiny Kox, opening a meeting of Secretaries General of...