25/10/2019 | News
“Ensuring human rights, the rule of law and democracy is a never-ending task. We must defend them again and again, promote them and continue to develop them", the PACE President said closing the European Conference.
25/10/2019 | News
Sexual violence and harassment in parliaments is not a woman’s issue alone, Storting President Tona Wilhelmsen Trøen has said, but constitutes “a threat to democracy” which must be taken seriously by both women and men.
24/10/2019 | European Conference of Presidents of Parliament
The Presidents of Parliament from the 47 Council of Europe member states and many partner, observer and neighbouring countries, along with the Presidents of other international assemblies, met in Strasbourg on 24 and 25 October 2019 for a European parliamentary summit.Some 60 Presidents, together...
24/10/2019 | Monitoring
Andrej Hunko and Joseph O’Reilly, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Albania, will make a fact-finding visit to Tirana, during which they will meet the Prime Minister and the Speaker of Parliament.
24/10/2019 | News
"“We have been building our Common Home for 70 years now and yet, if we do not show commitment and political will, it runs the risk of fracturing”, Liliane Maury Pasquier said at the opening of the Conference of Presidents.
24/10/2019 | Monitoring
Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson and Pieter Omtzigt have said they will closely follow the challenges to the election results for the Polish Senate, and stressed the need for transparency and impartiality in the handling of the appeals.
24/10/2019 | News
“In order to continue to have real added value, the Council of Europe must continue to adapt to new challenges posed in the human rights field to respond to the real concerns of citizens,” said Richard Ferrand.
24/10/2019 | News
“We must not take for granted everything that has been done to defend the Europe of peace, human rights and democracy, but commit ourselves every day to safeguard and protect these gains,” said Marina Carobbio.
24/10/2019 | News
The United Nations 2030 Agenda “is probably the most ambitious challenge facing humanity”, today said Gabriela Cuevas Barron, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, introducing Theme 2 of the Conference.
22/10/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Parlimentary Assembly rapporteur Sylvain Waserman has commented on recent cases involving whistleblowers in Serbia and the United States, two countries with very protective whistleblower laws.
21/10/2019 | Monitoring
Stefan Schennach and Roger Gale, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, have expressed their deep concern about the violence used by the police during the dispersion of a rally held in Baku.
18/10/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
"Faced with the immense human suffering caused by trafficking in human beings, the relevant legal instruments of the Council of Europe should be promoted and strengthened," declared Vernon Coaker.