08/12/2018 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier, today paid tribute to Ludmilla Alexeeva, a long-time Russian human rights defender and winner of the 2015 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize Václav Havel, who died in Moscow today.
07/12/2018 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The 2019 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to the Museum of Communication (Bern, Switzerland). The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the PACE at a meeting in Paris today.
07/12/2018 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Committee on culture considers that intangible cultural heritage (ICH), which includes traditions or living expressions inherited from the past, must be safeguarded in Europe.
07/12/2018 | Election observation
A PACE delegation headed by Aleksander Pociej will travel to Armenia to observe the conduct of the 9 December parliamentary elections alongside observers from the OSCE-PA, The EP and the OSCE-ODIHR.
07/12/2018 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
In the new media environment, where the dissemination of disinformation, propaganda or hate speech is growing, public service media are by definition well placed to counteract the phenomenon of information disorder.
07/12/2018 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier urges parliamentarians and the authorities of all Council of Europe member States “to redouble their efforts to stamp out this world scourge” in a statement to mark International Anti-Corruption Day.
06/12/2018 | News
Yves Cruchten, Parliamentary Assembly rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has strongly condemned six death sentences issued by a military tribunal in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on 3 December.
06/12/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Equality Committee reiterated its appeal to all member States “to respond positively to the needs of persons belonging to national minorities and to safeguard their rights”.
06/12/2018 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Committee on Culture today called for a critical reflection on internet governance and underlined that this issue “must be a core aspect of public policy, both at national level and in regional and global multilateral relations”.
05/12/2018 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is to undertake working visits to Portugal (6-8 December) and Estonia (9-10 December).
04/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs reiterated the Council of Europe’s call for “a ban on establishing a pregnancy using germ-line cells or human embryos which have undergone intentional genome editing”.
04/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Adolescents should participate in decisions about relevant health policies “for meeting their needs and developing efficient health systems”, the Committee on Social Affairs and Health said today.