28/09/2021 | Session
Following the recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan / Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, PACE has set out a series of recommendations to both countries to address the humanitarian consequences in the short and long term, and move towards a process of peace and reconciliation. Approving a...
28/09/2021 | Session
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides, speaking to PACE today, outlined an EU programme to make Europe “healthier, more inclusive, more resilient and more sustainable”, stressing that collaboration and solidarity were the keys to overcoming future challenges. The...
28/09/2021 | Session
Europe’s prosperity has been seemingly growing for decades but disparities have kept widening between and within countries. These inequalities not only negatively affect individuals and communities, but “also restrain overall economic development, undermine social justice, and hurt the...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Katerina Šimáčková as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Czech Republic. Mrs Šimáčková, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Diana Scobioală as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Republic of Moldova. Mrs Scobioală, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Mikhail Borisovich Lobov as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Russian Federation. Mr Lobov, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for...
28/09/2021 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Following credible reports that CIA officials discussed assassinating Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), the Parliamentary Assembly’s General Rapporteur on the protection of whistleblowers, has expressed serious concern at the possibility of the extra-judicial...
28/09/2021 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, meeting in hybrid mode in Strasbourg today, stressed the importance of history education in strengthening common values and helping young people acquire a nuanced and critical understanding of the past. In this respect, the committee...
28/09/2021 | Session
In a plenary debate, PACE strongly condemned so-called “honour” crimes which can take the form of murder, sequestration, abduction, torture, mutilation, burning, forced suicide, forced marriage, or conversion therapy. In a resolution adopted today, on the basis of the report by Beatrice Fresko...
28/09/2021 | Session
In her regular dialogue with the PACE, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić underlined the vital importance of Council of Europe member states fully implementing the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. This is a non-negotiable obligation, essential for upholding the system of...
28/09/2021 | Session
The PACE decided today to amend its Rules of Procedure, in order to encourage national delegations to promote equal representation of women and men in the Assembly, with a view to achieving a minimum participation threshold of 40% for each sex. In a resolution adopted on the basis of the report...
28/09/2021 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Tackling the immediate and future momentous challenges posed by the situation in Afghanistan requires a “coherent, co-ordinated and concerted” response by the international community and Council of Europe member States should “spare no effort” to achieve this objective, the Political Affairs...