04/09/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Sunna Thorhildur Ævarsdóttir, rapporteur on “Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan”, will make a fact-finding visit to Baku from 5 to 7 September, in the context of the preparation of her report.
04/09/2019 | Monitoring
Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson and Pieter Omtzigt, PACE co-rapporteurs on “The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland”, will make a fact-finding visit to Warsaw on 5-6 September.
27/08/2019 | Prizes
Meeting in Prague today, the selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which rewards outstanding civil society action in the defence of human rights, has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Prize.
26/08/2019 | Monitoring
The so-called ‘presidential elections’ in the Georgian region of Abkhazia on 25 August are neither legal nor legitimate, say PACE monitors of Georgia, Titus Corlatean and Claude Kern, in a statement.
14/08/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A new Italian law restricting migrant rescue NGOs could “increase the number of victims” and should be submitted for international expert opinion before coming into force, according to Doris Fiala.
12/08/2019 | President
"Seventy years ago today, the four Geneva Conventions were opened for signature, with the aim of protecting all human beings during wars and armed conflicts,” said PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier.
02/08/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean expressed his deep regret at the decision of the USA Federal Government to resume capital punishment and to schedule executions of five death-row inmates, announced by the Department of Justice.
30/07/2019 | Monitoring
Nigel Evans and Thomas Hammarberg, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, welcomed the decision of Turkey’s Constitutional Court to uphold the “Academics for Peace’s” freedom of expression.
28/07/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier expressed her deep concern at the arrest and detention of hundreds of people demonstrating in Moscow during an unauthorised rally in view of a forthcoming local election.
26/07/2019 | Monitoring
Egidijus Vareikis and Maryvonne Blondin, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Moldova, welcomed the steps taken to free state institutions from external and business influence, calling for their strengthening.
24/07/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, condemned the death sentences handed down recently in Morocco in the trial concerning the murder of two Scandinavian tourists in 2018.
22/07/2019 | President
“Hate speech and hate crimes are a gangrene on our societies, eating away at them from the inside,” said Liliane Maury Pasquier, in a statement to mark the European Day for Victims of Hate Crime.