09/12/2021 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
A video-conference aimed at mobilising political support for the Istanbul Convention, the landmark Council of Europe treaty setting out laws to combat domestic violence, is to take place on 13 December 2021. The event, organised by the PACE “Women Free from Violence” Parliamentary Network and...
07/12/2021 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A PACE committee has called on the Russian Federation to fulfil its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights by launching an independent and effective investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, adding that those carrying it out “must be independent from the FSB...
07/12/2021 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Declassifying today an information note prepared by Vladimir Vardanyan (Armenia, EPP/CD), the Legal Affairs Committee took stock of the abolition of the death penalty in Council of Europe member States (the Russian Federation), observer States (United States, Japan and Israel), States whose...
06/12/2021 | Monitoring
Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 8 to 10 December 2021. Discussions will...
06/12/2021 | President
Following a recent working visit to the United Kingdom, which focused on strengthening the role of the UK in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in the post-Brexit era, PACE President Rik Daems highlighted the excellent engagement of the UK Parliament in the Assembly’s work...
03/12/2021 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The 2022 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to Nano Nagle Place (Cork, Ireland). The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) meeting today. Nano Nagle Place not only commemorates the educational and religious work of...
03/12/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee is calling for “a careful balance” to be struck between ensuring patients have access to the prescription medicines they need and preventing addiction to them. The Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, approving a draft resolution and...
03/12/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
It is time for governments and parliaments to ensure that children’s views are taken into account “whenever decisions affecting their lives are made”, a PACE committee has declared. The Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, approving a draft resolution and...
03/12/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The lack of action to tackle climate change is a violation of children's rights, according to the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, in particular with regard to “the right to life, development, health and medical care, education, a good standard of living, and...
02/12/2021 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the eve of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December 2021), the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination made the following statement: Throughout the world, persons with disabilities have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, which limited their...
02/12/2021 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Football’s main players must put human rights values at the heart of the sport, a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has said in a wide-ranging report on football governance. The report, prepared by Lord George Foulkes (United Kingdom, SOC) for the Assembly’s...
02/12/2021 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Collaboration between public authorities and the media is “one of the keyways of dealing with and overcoming a crisis”, and the authorities should “support the media so that the latter can perform their various roles to the full”, today said PACE Committee on culture. Unanimously adopting a draft...