29/05/2026 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, meeting in Athens on 28 May, expressed concern at the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes throughout public communication spaces, including the press, radio and television, as well as online platforms and social networks. Too often trivialised and...
29/05/2026 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Tone Trøen (Norway, EPP/CD), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on media freedom in sport, issued the following statement today: “Silencing whistleblowers and journalists who expose abuses linked to major sporting events is incompatible with the values that...
28/05/2026 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee has condemned all forms of “transnational repression” – a form of foreign interference used by authoritarian regimes to repress political dissidents, journalists, human rights defenders and members of diaspora communities beyond their borders – and has urged new...
27/05/2026 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, meeting in Tallinn, made the following statement on the coercive measures imposed on judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court : "The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
27/05/2026 | Standing Committee
Parliamentarians, youth representatives and experts met in Monaco for a round table organised by the PACE Parliamentary and Electoral Co-operation Division together with the Monaco delegation to PACE to discuss the impact of new technologies on young people, education and democratic life...
24/05/2026 | Women@PACE
Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene of Monaco was the guest of honour at a working breakfast of the Assembly’s Women@PACE group which took place in the Principality ahead of a meeting of the PACE Standing Committee. Welcoming the Assembly to Monaco, the Princess said that in a world often...
24/05/2026 | Monitoring
Lord David Blencathra (United kingdom, ECPA) and Yves Cruchten (Luxembourg, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee on Türkiye, have made the following statement: “We are deeply concerned by the scenes witnessed today at the headquarters of Türkiye‘s main opposition party, the CHP...
22/05/2026 | Standing Committee
A meeting of PACE’s Standing Committee opened in Monaco today, with a series of opening speeches which focused on the urgent need to uphold the founding ideals of the Council of Europe in ever more worrying times – and on the concrete steps which the organisation is taking, including bringing...
22/05/2026 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting today in Monaco, welcomed the Venice Commission’s proactive stance in updating the Rule of Law Checklist to reflect the challenges to the rule of law and lessons drawn from developments in its 61 member states. The committee contributed to the update...
22/05/2026 | Standing Committee
By adopting unanimously a resolution today, based on the proposals by Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), the PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Monaco, decided to restructure and streamline the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure, as well as its complementary texts, with the aim of making the...
22/05/2026 | Standing Committee
PACE has adopted a resolution stressing that “equality and non-discrimination are cornerstones of democratic societies and essential elements of the rule of law”, while warning that “regressions in women’s rights may serve as an early warning sign of broader democratic backsliding”. The adopted...
22/05/2026 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting today in Monaco, strongly condemned “the deliberate targeting and killing of local journalists in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces” and Israel’s prohibition on international journalists and media outlets accessing the Gaza Strip. It also deplores the...