13/10/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Measures to prevent cases of marital captivity and ensure effective solutions for victims are urgently needed, the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination has said. The report by Margreet De Boer (Netherlands, SOC), adopted by the committee on 13 October, explains that marital captivity...
12/10/2022 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly has said planned legislation in Türkiye to criminalise the dissemination of “false or misleading information” would “cause irreparable harm to the exercise of freedom of speech before elections” and urged the Turkish authorities not to enact it.Approving a resolution...
12/10/2022 | Session
Ireland’s Minister of State for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, has given his backing to a fourth summit of Council of Europe Heads of State and Government to take place in Reykjavik as part of Iceland’s forthcoming presidency of the organisation’s Committee of Ministers. Addressing the...
12/10/2022 | Session
Declaring that long-standing rule of law and democracy issues in Hungary “remain largely unaddressed”, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has voted to place the country under its full monitoring procedure. Hungary joins ten other Council of Europe member States currently...
12/10/2022 | Session
“The faith of Albania and its European destiny is our anchor to the future. No matter what storms or fogs Europe encounters, Albanians cannot but imagine sharing the journey, even if it turns out to be a tumultuous one,” Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said today, addressing the Parliamentary...
12/10/2022 | Session
PACE has noted that border pushbacks have taken on worrying proportions, both at land and sea, and that they render the plight of migrants and refugees even harsher, heightening the risk to lose one’s life in a very perilous journey. It therefore called on member States to “change the law and...
12/10/2022 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly expressed its concern about the current tendency of returning or transferring asylum seekers to third countries without clarity on the safety of the respective third country. In adopting a resolution, based on the report by Stephanie Krisper (Austria, ALDE), PACE called...
12/10/2022 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
According to the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and the Media, the recourse to digital public health technologies must be part of a comprehensive national epidemiological strategy, “balancing all interests at stake” and “based on an evaluation of its real effectiveness”. The committee...
11/10/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
In a statement adopted unanimously at its meeting today, the Equality and Non-Discrimination Committee condemned the repression and denial of rights of Iranian women and girls, and called for an end to the state-led violent response to the uprising, while expressing solidarity with the protesters...
11/10/2022 | Session
The Assembly today expressed its deep concern at the constant increase in signs of Islamophobia in Europe, which has reached a dramatic spike in recent years. According to the adopted resolution, based on the report by Momodou Malcolm Jallow (Sweden, UEL), anti-Muslim racism is manifested through...
11/10/2022 | Session
States should not “misuse” the EU’s Schengen Information System (SIS) by making unjustified alerts, including on politically motivated grounds, PACE has said. Approving a resolution based on a report by Ziya Altunyaldiz (Türkiye, NR), the Assembly said that – while states had a sovereign right...
11/10/2022 | Session
In her dialogue with members of the Parliamentary Assembly, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić underlined the strong support of the High Level Reflection Group for a fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe. The Summit would be an occasion for all Member...