02/12/2025 | Prizes
The 2026 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to the Young V&A in the United Kingdom. The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting today in Paris. The Young V&A is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the...
01/12/2025 | Election observation
Kyrgyzstan’s early parliamentary elections were efficiently run but the restrictive campaign environment stifled candidate and voter engagement, and while the fundamental freedoms are protected by the constitution, they are increasingly limited in practice and recent changes to the legal...
01/12/2025 | Prizes
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Theodoros Rousopoulos, presented the fourth 2025 ‘Human Rights in Motion’ Award at the Porto/Post/Doc Film and Media Festival in Portugal on Sunday 30 November. The international jury selected Rule of Stone (A Lei da Pedra), a...
01/12/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“I am concerned by the legislative proposals that are currently being considered under an expedited procedure in the Slovak parliament, which would affect the protection of whistle-blowers,” said Anna-Kristiina Mikkonen (Finland, SOC), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
01/12/2025 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Parliamentary Alliance for Good Governance and Integrity in Sport of the PACE, chaired by Kim Valentin (Denmark, ALDE), held a hearing on 1 December in Paris, addressing urgent challenges at the intersection of sport, public health, integrity, and human rights. The first session, dedicated to...
28/11/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE and the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye co-organised a parliamentary roundtable on “The role of public policy to prevent and address disappearances of migrants”. The event, bringing together more than 80 participants, launched the recently published toolkit for parliamentarians on this...
28/11/2025 | Monitoring
“The respect of judicial decisions is a key principle in any democracy. Political polarisation should not stand in the way of respect for the rule of law, the separation of powers and a culture of constructive institutional dialogue,” said Elvira Kovács (Serbia, EPP/CD) and Valentina Grippo...
25/11/2025 | Women free from violence
A parliamentary round table at the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau focused on what parliamentarians can do to implement the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s legal standard on combating violence against women, and heard from leading Moldovan officials the progress...
24/11/2025 | Election observation
An 11-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by Georgios Stamatis (Greece, EPP/CD), will travel to the Kyrgyz Republic from 28 November to 1 December to observe the early parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE Parliamentary...
24/11/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Online violence against women and girls, facilitated by new technologies and the insufficient regulation of artificial intelligence and online platforms, is growing exponentially and is a serious threat to the human rights of women and girls,” declared PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Chisinau today, has proposed a set of measures to prevent and combat gender discrimination and gender-based violence in healthcare, medical research and clinical trials. According to PACE, access to healthcare remains unequal and gender discrimination in...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
At the opening of a meeting of the Assembly’s Standing Committee in Chisinau PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos pledged the Assembly’s support for the priorities of the new Republic of Moldova Presidency, which began earlier this month, declaring they were “perfectly consistent” with the...