21/03/2022 | Monitoring
PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Turkey John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) undertook a fact-finding visit to Turkey from 21-24 March 2022 to assess follow-up to the Assembly’s resolutions, latest developments and the implementation of rulings of the European...
21/03/2022 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
In a declaration adopted unanimously today, the Committee on Migration called for a coordinated humanitarian response by member States to evacuate persons who fled the armed conflict in Ukraine from neighbouring countries “by resettlement and relocation, and without discrimination”. The...
17/03/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
It is time to stop putting persons with disabilities into institutions, but rather to help them transition to supported independent living, says PACE’s Social Affairs Committee. Unanimously adopting a draft resolution, as well as a draft recommendation to governments, based on a report by Reina...
17/03/2022 | Women@PACE
“We stand in solidarity with you,” the women MPs of the newly-created Women@PACE group declared, welcoming their Ukrainian counterparts at a first ever meeting of the group in Strasbourg on 15 March 2022. They paid tribute to the outstanding courage and strength of women in Ukraine, and more...
17/03/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
According to the Committee on Social Affairs, extreme child poverty is far from being eradicated, and has even resumed its expansion before the covid-19 pandemic, confirming the collective failure of public policies to combat this phenomenon. The report by Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC...
17/03/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
All digital devices should have easy-to-use parental controls and tools for filtering and blocking pornographic material built into them by default in order to combat children's exposure to adult content, the PACE Social Affairs Committee said. These control tools should be “systematically...
17/03/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Globalisation, digitalisation, new technologies and the Covid-19 pandemic have moved more and more people into hybrid and fully remote work (teleworking), but how should government policies and legal frameworks adapt to this new reality? How can the well-being of people at work be maintained when...
16/03/2022 | President
Tiny Kox, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has welcomed the decision of the Committee of Ministers to exclude the Russian Federation from the organisation as of today. The decision comes as an immediate reaction to the Opinion unanimously adopted by the...
15/03/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am dismayed by the 13-year prison sentence requested today by the Russian prosecutor's office against Alexey Navalny on charges of ‘fraud' and 'insulting a court'," Jacques Maire (France, ALDE), PACE rapporteur on Navalny’s poisoning, said today. "This request comes in the context of the trial...
15/03/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
No one’s outcomes in life should be determined by their birth, the Committee on Equality noted today, adopting a report by Selin Sayek Böke (Turkey, SOC). However, throughout Europe, a person’s social origin, the conditions in which they were born, have a direct influence on their future, their...
15/03/2022 | Session
The Russian Federation “committed grave violations of the Council of Europe Statute incompatible with the status of a member State, does not bear its undertakings before the Council of Europe and does not comply with the commitments before it”. Therefore, the Council of Europe Parliamentary...
15/03/2022 | President
The Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Chair of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, Luigi Di Maio, the President of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, Tiny Kox, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić...