04/02/2022 | Monitoring
In an information note declassified by the Monitoring Committee, Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) and Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (Latvia, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova, underlined the determination of the authorities to strengthen the independence of the...
02/02/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Equality Committee has expressed its concern about harassment and violence perpetrated by anti-abortion activists in many member States, targeting persons who want to preserve access to free and safe abortions. Those targeted include women's rights defenders speaking out for the right to...
01/02/2022 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation, has today issued a call for nominations for the 2022 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. The Prize, created in 2013, aims to reward outstanding civil society action...
28/01/2022 | Session
Debates on beating Covid-19 with public health measures, on combating rising hate against LGBTI people in Europe and alleged violations of their rights in the Southern Caucasus, on football governance – with an intervention by FIFA President Giovanni Infantino – and on the poisoning of Alexei...
28/01/2022 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held this morning a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda. Eleven parliamentarians took the floor.
28/01/2022 | Session
In adopting a resolution today, based on a report by Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) – a report taking stock of the PACE monitoring activities in 2021 and making a series of assessments of the countries under monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, as well as of...
27/01/2022 | Session
The governments and parliaments in Council of Europe member States and worldwide must make a paradigm shift to “beating Covid-19 with public health measures, in a human-rights compliant way, once and for all,” according to PACE, meeting today in plenary session in Strasbourg. The parliamentarians...
27/01/2022 | Session
"No circumstances whatsoever, whether a threat of war, a state of war, internal political instability or any other state of emergency, may be invoked to justify enforced disappearances," PACE said today. It deeply regretted that they remain "a common criminal practice even today" in the...
27/01/2022 | Session
"The history of the Shoah was built with the memory of the survivors. But just as the 20th century saw the annihilation of our relatives and friends, the beginning of the 21st century will see the disappearance of the last eyewitnesses. Soon the generation that was not meant to survive will be...
27/01/2022 | Session
At the end of a special event organised in the hemicycle on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the Assembly underlined the crucial importance of history education in strengthening common values and helping young people acquire a...
27/01/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE today launches a new Parliamentary Network for a Healthy Environment, bringing together almost 30 parliamentarians from some 20 different parliaments across the Council of Europe area to demand that governments create a legal right to a healthy environment and take other urgent steps to deal...
27/01/2022 | Session
PACE has welcomed the fact that Armenia has “successfully emerged from the serious political crisis triggered by the outcome in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” as well as its pursuit of reforms and the launch of new projects since the change of political leadership in 2018. Approving a resolution...