17/11/2020 | Standing Committee
Highlights of PACE’s Standing Committee, meeting by video-conference on 20 November in its enlarged format, include reports on the gender dimension of foreign policy and on threats to academic freedom. German Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth will present Germany’s priorities for its...
17/11/2020 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Joint statement by Baroness Doreen E. Massey (United Kingdom, SOC), PACE Rapporteur on “Addressing sexual violence against children: stepping up action and co-operation in Europe”, and Dimitri Houbron (France, ALDE), PACE Rapporteur on “For an assessment of the means and provisions to combat...
16/11/2020 | President
As announced, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rik Daems is in Moscow for a working visit. The President has been informed that he has been in contact with a Russian counterpart who may have tested positive with COVID-19. In line with the Council of...
13/11/2020 | President
Strasbourg, 13.11.2020 – Rik Daems, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to Moscow on 16-17 November, during which he will address the 4th International Conference on “Human rights protection in Eurasia: exchange of best practices of...
13/11/2020 | Monitoring
PACE's Monitoring Committee has decided that it will select the order of countries for "periodic review" on substantive grounds based on findings by the Assembly and other Council of Europe monitoring bodies, as well as "questions raised by members of the committee, international and national...
12/11/2020 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Widespread sharing of sexual images and videos produced by children themselves has become a challenge that we must urgently address, especially as the risks of sexual exploitation and abuse have increased in the context of the lockdown and resulting isolation of children,” said Dimitri Houbron...
10/11/2020 | Monitoring
“We are deeply concerned by the outbreak of violence during the protest in Yerevan, including attacks on the Parliament and Government buildings and the physical aggression against the President of the National Assembly that left him hospitalised,” said Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/DC) and Kimmo...
10/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
A PACE webinar on combating violence against women in sport has heard powerful testimony from a French athlete who suffered sexual abuse in her sport, as well as a series of initiatives from the UN, FIFA and other organisations on how to prevent it. Sarah Abitbol, a French figure skater...
09/11/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
National and international efforts aimed at combating money-laundering and terrorist financing have fallen far short of declared objectives. According to the Legal Affairs Committee, these illegal assets amount to more than USD 2 000 billion annually. In the hands of criminals, they represent a...
05/11/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE’s Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence and Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination are organising a Facebook Live webinar entitled “Preventing and combating violence against women in sport”, on 10 November at 10 am. Speakers include former athletes and specialists in equality...
04/11/2020 | President
PACE President Rik Daems has hailed the 70th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights with an appeal to Council of Europe member States to “cherish, uphold and treasure” the Convention, and said the Assembly would continue to draw attention to what he called “a new generation of...
04/11/2020 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Ukraine, Alfred Heer (Switzerland, ALDE), has today expressed serious concern about the consequences of the recent decision of the Ukrainian Constitutional Court regarding anti-corruption...