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‘Decent work: building a sustainable future’ – a Council of Europe side-event at the UN in New York

11/07/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

“Decent work, building a sustainable future” will be the theme of a side-event on Friday 14th July 2023, taking place on the margins of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the UN Headquarters in New York. Organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...

The President of the Cyprus Republic, Nikos Christodoulides, at the Plenary session of the House of Representatives, addressed by the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox
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PACE President: let’s go from the Cyprus problem to the Cyprus solution

07/07/2023 | President

PACE President Tiny Kox, in an address to the Cyprus House of Representatives yesterday, stressed the vital need to find a solution for Cyprus after 50 years of division – and called for a “bi-communal and bi-zonal federation with political equality on the island”, in line with United Nations...

Justice for Nahel, street clashes in France, July 2023
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PACE Social Committee Chairperson on rioting in France: ‘No social peace without social justice, and no...

05/07/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

Selin Sayek Böke (Türkiye, SOC), the Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, has issued the following statement today: “The death of a 17-year-old boy in France, shot by a policeman at a routine traffic stop, is both profoundly shocking and heart...

Register of damage
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Ukraine Register of Damage should also record loss caused by Wagner and Kadyrov groups, says PACE President

27/06/2023 | President

PACE President Tiny Kox has hailed the creation of an international Register of Damage for Ukraine as “a first practical step” towards obtaining reparation for the damage caused to the Ukrainian people by Russia’s war of aggression – and urged that it record also loss or damage caused by private...

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Summer Session: political consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, participation of Russian and...

23/06/2023 | Session

A joint urgent debate on the political consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, was a highlight of the Summer plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...

Edite Estrela
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PACE adopts resolution urging action to bridge the digital divide and ensure equal access to digital...

23/06/2023 | Session

Digital technologies have become increasingly present in all aspects of our lives, offering tremendous progress and opportunities. However, for those who do not have access to such technologies or who are unable to use them, the digital divide has emerged as a major barrier to equality...

Christopher CHOPE (Royaume-Uni, CE/AD)
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PACE sets out steps to curb ‘transnational repression’

23/06/2023 | Session

PACE has condemned all forms of transnational repression – the assassination, intimidation or harassment by a state of its perceived enemies living abroad – as a growing threat to the rule of law and human rights. Approving a report on the topic by Sir Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EC/DA...

Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD)
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Emanuelis Zingeris highlights repression by the Russian Federation as General Rapporteur on the Situation...

22/06/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

On Wednesday 21 June Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD) was appointed as General Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers by the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. “Human rights defenders and...

Linda Hofstad HELLELAND (Norway, EPP/CD)
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PACE calls for a total ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes taking part in the Paris Olympics and...

22/06/2023 | Session

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its constituent sports bodies to maintain the position expressed in 2022, and to prohibit the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris Olympic and Paralympic...

Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD)

Supporting Ukraine should be a political imperative for the Council of Europe and its member States

22/06/2023 | Session

PACE considers that one of the main political consequences of the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine is “that it has forged a renewed bond amongst democracies in support of Ukraine”. According to the parliamentarians, the Reykjavik Summit is the expression of this unity around...

Paul GAVAN (Ireland, UEL)
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Lachin corridor: 'A humanitarian response alone is not sufficient; a political solution is needed'

22/06/2023 | Session

At the end of an urgent debate on ‘Ensuring free and safe access through the Lachin Corridor’, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today expressed its extreme concern by events which have unfolded since the signature of the Trilateral Statement on 9 November 2020, and which...

Address by H.E. Mrs Nataša PIRC MUSAR, President of the Republic of Slovenia
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Slovenian President makes the case for the Council of Europe in tackling regional and global problems...

21/06/2023 | Session

Advocating the Council of Europe’s role as the legal bedrock of Europe, promoting the human right to clean and healthy environment, working with the young people, continuing support to Ukraine in fighting against Russia’s aggression and thinking about post-war reconstruction, as well as...