21/02/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has strongly condemned the death sentences recently issued in the Hamas-run Gaza strip (Palestinian Authority).
21/02/2019 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Lord George Foulkes, PACE General Rapporteur on media freedom, has expressed concern over police actions against the Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, detained over her comments on a suicide bombing.
21/02/2019 | News
Titus Corlăţean and Mogens Jensen strongly condemn the death sentences recently issued in Jordan and call on the Jordanian authorities "not to implement any death sentence".
21/02/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier participates in a conference on the impacts of artificial intelligence on human rights, democracy and the rule of law, organised by the Council of Europe and the Finnish Presidency of the Committee of Ministers.
20/02/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Social Justice Day is a moment to pause and think about what our society should do so that all citizens can enjoy decent living conditions. I am convinced that basic income can be part of the answer,” said Stefan Schennach.
18/02/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Lord Richard Balfe, rapporteur on “Ombudsman institutions in Europe - the need for a set of common standards”, reacted to the defamation lawsuit filed by Polish Public Television against the Polish Ombudsman, Adam Bodnar.
15/02/2019 | Election observation
A PACE delegation will travel to the Republic of Moldova from 22 to 25 February to observe the conduct of the parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE-PA, the EP and the OSCE-ODIHR.
12/02/2019 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The committee has queried whether the work since 1991 of the EBRD to develop market economies in transition countries has helped to promote democracy, which is also one of the stated aims of the bank.
07/02/2019 | Monitoring
Telmo Correia and Angela Smith have expressed concern at the conviction and sentencing to six years imprisonment of Dennis Christensen for “organising the activity of an extremist organisation” on the grounds that he is a Jehovah’s Witness.
05/02/2019 | Monitoring
Ongoing developments in combating corruption, as well as the political situation in the country ahead of Presidential and parliamentary elections, were the main focus of a recent visit by PACE monitors.
04/02/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“My thoughts are with the more than 30 000 inhabitants of the city of Rann in Nigeria, who became victims of forced displacement through the brutal attacks of Boko Haram terrorists,” said Fabien Gouttefarde.
04/02/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE’s Migration Committee has urged Council of Europe member States to extend development co-operation with Africa to provide hope of “a viable future at home for people who would otherwise migrate to Europe”.