24/05/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee has said that, based on the evidence made available to its rapporteur by Ukrainian and Dutch authorities, it considers “as the most convincing scenario by far” that flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 by a Buk missile made available to pro-Russian...
20/05/2022 | President
In his speech at today’s Committee of Ministers session in Turin, PACE President Tiny Kox called for a Summit of Heads of State and Government to renew, improve and reinforce the Council of Europe. "This summit should lead to a Council of Europe with new competencies and better equipped to...
20/05/2022 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have appealed to Turkey’s authorities to find a solution to the Kavala case which is in line with an earlier ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. Ending a three-day visit to Istanbul...
18/05/2022 | Monitoring
John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Turkey, will make a fact-finding visit to Istanbul and Ankara from 18 to 20 May 2022. The co...
18/05/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Addressing suboptimal vaccination coverage is a matter of human rights protection and should be a priority for Council of Europe member States, the PACE Social Affairs Committee has stressed. However, it noted “with alarm that the European Region has a higher-than-average percentage of negative...
16/05/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (17 May 2022) the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, meeting in Stockholm on 12 May 2022, adopted the following statement: “Over recent years, significant progress has been made...
16/05/2022 | Political Affairs and Democracy
In a new security context which is fraught with risks as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the PACE Political Affairs Committee is urging European nations to reinforce their wider “democratic security” by renewing their commitment to the Council of Europe’s core values of human...
13/05/2022 | Monitoring
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC), reacted to the confirmation of Canan Kaftancıoğlu’s prison sentence: "We are dismayed by the decision of the Court of Cassation...
12/05/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
At a time when racism and intolerance are rife in Europe, political parties are best placed to combat racism, intolerance and hate speech, PACE's Equality and Non-Discrimination Committee has said. The committee therefore considers that the Charter of European Political Parties for a Non-Racist...
12/05/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Deeply concerned by the rise in hatred and violence against Jewish people in Europe, and particularly by online antisemitism, the Equality and Non-discrimination Committee has called on Council of Europe member States to adopt strategies or national action plans to prevent and combat antisemitism...
10/05/2022 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“Cooperation and coordination between the central, regional and local levels is key to ensuring that the needs of more than 5 million refugees and 7 to 9 million IDPs are met in the medium and long term,” said Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC), rapporteur on “the humanitarian consequences...
10/05/2022 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Internet intermediaries “should assume specific responsibilities based on international standards and national legislation regarding users’ protection” against manipulation, disinformation, harassment, hate speech and any expression which infringes privacy and human dignity, PACE’s Committee on...