31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting today in Dublin, called on member States to fully integrate a gender equality perspective in legislation, policies, programmes and infrastructure, that cater for the needs of migrant people. In adopting unanimously a resolution today, based on the report by Petra...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting in Dublin today, has expressed its concern about harassment and violence perpetrated by anti-abortion activists in many member States, targeting persons who want to protect access to free and safe abortions. According to the resolution unanimously adopted today...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
Addiction to prescribed medicines is the result of an “insidious and gradual process of giving up control of one’s own life for the sake of relief” provided by the prescribed medicine, the Standing Committee said. Such addiction, it added, is a “systemic social problem that requires a holistic...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
Despite all the efforts being made, poverty, especially extreme child poverty, is far from being eradicated. And in light of “unacceptable situations” Council of Europe member States should “demonstrate the political will to address every dimension of extreme child poverty” and ensure no one is...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
The Speakers of the two Houses of the Irish Parliament, the Oireachtas, have welcomed members of PACE to Dublin, underlining the scale of the challenge in dealing with the far-reaching effects of the war in Ukraine, and reiterating their solid support for Ukraine’s people and leaders. Seán Ó...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
PACE members have again expressed their strong support for the organisation of a fourth Council of Europe summit, which would bring together the Heads of State or Government of all member States to renew, improve and reinforce the Organisation at a time of dramatic realignment in Europe. Jacques...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
Irish Foreign and Defence Minister Simon Coveney, Chair of the Committee of Ministers, has said Ireland will do all it can to convene a Fourth Summit as soon as possible, to reaffirm the Council of Europe’s role as “the conscience of Europe”. During an exchange of views with members of PACE’s...
31/05/2022 | Women@PACE
At the initiative of Fiona O'Loughlin, Chairperson of the Irish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly, women members of the Standing Committee representing the newly established Women@PACE group, held an informal joint meeting in Dublin with the Irish Women’s Parliamentary Caucus and heard...
25/05/2022 | Parliamentary support
Within the framework of the project "Support to the development of the role of the Parliament in consolidating democracy in Morocco 2020-2023", the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the University of Applied Administrative Sciences of Kehl (USAAK) organized an information...
24/05/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Legal Affairs Committee is “appalled” by the large and growing number of political prisoners in the Russian Federation and the “pattern of systematic repression” against any and all opponents of the current authorities. The European Court of Human Rights has delivered multiple judgments in...
24/05/2022 | Monitoring
In the framework of its regular periodic reviews of the honouring of membership obligations by Council of Europe member States, the Monitoring Committee today made public its report on Malta. The draft resolution included, which was unanimously adopted by the Committee, states that Malta faces...
24/05/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Legal Affairs Committee yesterday deplored the "dismal human rights situation” in the North Caucasus, where widespread fear and impunity of agents of the regional and federal authorities for serious human rights violations continue to prevail. None of the recommendations contained in the...