09/09/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Sunna Aevarsdottir, rapporteur on ‘reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan’, has concluded her three-day fact-finding visit to the country by meeting four current detainees.
07/09/2019 | President
“I would like to welcome the exchange of prisoners that is taking place today, following negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow,” said Liliane Maury Pasquier, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
06/09/2019 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
A new report has listed the follow-up given by PACE’s Rules Committee to the conclusions and recommendations of the Independent Investigation Body which looked into allegations of corruption within the Assembly.
06/09/2019 | Secretary General of the Assembly
Relations between PACE and the Moroccan Parliament, which enjoys the status of partner for democracy in the Assembly were at the center of a meeting today between PACE Secretary General Wojciech Sawicki and the Secretary General of the House Representatives of Morocco, Najib El Khadi.
06/09/2019 | Parliamentary support
The “5th Parliamentary Conference on implementing standards of the European Convention on Human Rights: key role of national parliaments” will be held on 9 September in Riga, at the invitation of the Latvian Parliament.
06/09/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is to make a working visit to Latvia on 9 and 10 September 2019, during which she will address a parliamentary conference in Riga on the key role of national parliaments in implementing the standards...
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.