26/04/2022 | Session
In the context of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and its exclusion from the Council of Europe, PACE stressed the importance of strengthening the strategic partnership between the Council of Europe and the EU, “on the basis of their shared values and commitment to promoting peace and...
26/04/2022 | Session
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović, presenting her 2021 annual report to the Parliamentary Assembly, has said that trends undermining human rights protection have continued in 2021. The topics covered by the report vary from media freedom and journalists’ safety to...
26/04/2022 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Museum Prize was awarded to Nano Nagle Place (Cork, Ireland) during a ceremony at the Palais des Rohan, in Strasbourg. The museum was chosen last December by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Recieving the Prize, Shane Clarke, CEO of Nano...
25/04/2022 | Session
A general policy debate on the consequences of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine was at the centre of the spring plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which was held in hybrid format from 25 to 28 April 2022. In the context of this...
25/04/2022 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Describing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine as “an act of unprecedented gravity” with far-reaching consequences worldwide, PACE’s Political Affairs Committee has made a strong call for unity in supporting Ukraine and for putting maximum pressure on the Russian Federation to cease its...
25/04/2022 | President
At the opening of the PACE spring session in Strasbourg, President Tiny Kox urged members to help restore peace in Ukraine and the entire continent, and to assist Council of Europe member State Ukraine “to regain its national sovereignty and territorial integrity and rebuild its society, which is...
25/04/2022 | Session
The Assembly's extraordinary plenary session (14-15 March) on the consequences of Russia's aggression against Ukraine; relations with Belarus; the list of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Ukraine; the lists of candidates to the European Committee...
25/04/2022 | Session
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 Assembly said. These control tools should be “systematically activated in public spaces...
25/04/2022 | Women@PACE
Meeting in Strasbourg for the second time, members of the Women@PACE group have strongly condemned the numerous reports of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Ukraine, and the huge and overall disproportionate impact the Russian Federation’s aggression is having on women and...
14/04/2022 | President
In a letter addressed to the President of the Bundestag, Tiny Kox expressed his condolences and paid tribute to the former President of the Parliamentary Assembly Leni Fischer, who held this position from 1996 to 1999. “Not only a committed defender of democracy, rule of law and human rights but...
14/04/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE's General Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and rapporteur on political prisoners in Russia, Sunna Ævarsdóttir, (Iceland, SOC), today reacted to the sentence of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian historian and opposition politician, to 15 days administrative detention for...
08/04/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Fifty-one years after the first World Roma Congress of 8 April 1971, racism and discrimination against Roma and Travellers remain alarmingly rife in Europe,” declared Petra Bayr, the Parliamentary Assembly’s General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance, on the occasion of International...