30/03/2020 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, Titus Corlatean and Claude Kern, have made the following statement regarding the so-called ‘repeat presidential elections’ in the Georgian region of Abkhazia:
27/03/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Throughout Europe, there are Roma and Travellers living in desperately inadequate and often in a situation of severe overcrowding. Instead of seeking additional ways to protect them, some politicians have actively fuelled anti-Gypsyism,” said František Kopřiva.
27/03/2020 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“Thousands of migrant children are kept behind bars all over the world, particularly in the context of administrative detention. During the global COVID-19 pandemic these children face worse threats to their health and safety,” said Rósa Björk Brynjólfsdóttir.
26/03/2020 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Albania, Joe O’Reilly and Petter Eide, and the co-rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia, Lise Christoffersen, welcome the decision by the Council of the EU to open membership negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia.
26/03/2020 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine, Dzhema Grozdanova and Alfred Heer, have expressed their serious concern at restrictions on the freedom of movement of OSCE monitors by illegally-armed formations in the Donbass region.
25/03/2020 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
"In the current extreme health situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, member States cannot neglect the terrible plight of refugees in camps and must provide humanitarian assistance to refugees in great need," said Pierre-Alain Fridez.
25/03/2020 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“Democracy and parliamentary scrutiny of governments, even if exercised through new means, must be protected during the COVID-19 pandemic,” warns Dame Cheryl Gillan, Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy.
25/03/2020 | Monitoring
Sunna Ævarsdottir, Sir Roger Gale and Stefan Schennach responded to reports that President Ilham Aliyev, in his speech to mark the Nowruz holiday, had proposed the “isolation” of the country’s political opposition as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
24/03/2020 | President
Rik Daems, the President of the PACE, has urged European governments to abide strictly by the European Convention on Human Rights when adopting emergency measures to deal with the COVID-19 crisis.
24/03/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has welcomed the decision of the State of Colorado to abolish the death penalty and to commute the sentences of persons on death row to life sentences.
23/03/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Countering violence against women must remain a priority for policy-makers and legislators during the COVID-19 crisis, according to Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo, the General Rapporteur on Violence against Women.
20/03/2020 | Session
The Spring plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly, which had been scheduled for 20-24 April 2020, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak.