24/08/2018 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier will make an official visit to the Czech Republic on 27-28 August, during which she is due to meet the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, the President of the Senate and the Prime Minister.
20/08/2018 | Prizes
The Selection Panel of the PACE Václav Havel Human Rights Prize will meet on Tuesday 28 August in Prague to determine a shortlist of three nominees from among the candidatures received.
16/08/2018 | Monitoring
"We welcome the release of Taner Kılıç, Honorary Chair of Amnesty International Turkey and also reiterate our call to drop all the terror-related charges still pending against him," said Marianne Mikko and Nigel Evans.
14/08/2018 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier expressed her relief at the release of Ilgar Mammadov, leader of the opposition civic movement ReAl in Azerbaijan, who had served more than five years in prison.
10/08/2018 | President
"The formal notification by the Turkish authorities to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on 8 August, is to be welcomed," PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier said today.
03/08/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The call for nominations for the 2018 European Diaspora Prize will be closed on 15 August next. The European Diaspora Prize rewards every year the action of a outstanding diaspora association.
02/08/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Even as we pay tribute to the victims of the Roma genocide perpetrated during the Second World War, there are alarming signs that anti-Gypsyism is still rife in Europe,” said Gabriela Heinrich.
01/08/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten (Luxembourg, SOC), PACE rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has strongly condemned two death sentences issued by Gaza Court of First Instance on 26 July.
30/07/2018 | President
“It is high time for Europe to fight human trafficking and smuggling with more determination and much more effectively,” said PACE President. Vernon Coaker is preparing a report on concerted action on human trafficking.
26/07/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
I welcome the very humane approach towards the care of migrant children in SOS Children’s Villages in Greece, said Pierre-Alain Fridez, General Rapporteur on the Parliamentary Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children.
20/07/2018 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier, in a statement to mark the European Day for the Victims of Hate Crime (22 July), has urged political leaders to show 'zero tolerance' for hate speech and the stigmatising of individuals or groups.
13/07/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The situation for asylum seekers continues to be appalling in the Moria reception and identification Centre on the island of Lesbos, which houses 7500 people at present, said Petra De Sutter who visited Athens, Kavala, Drama and Lesbos.