02/02/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am seriously alarmed by the Romanian government’s emergency decree, given immediate effect, which will decriminalise many, even serious cases of corruption and abuse of public office", said Bernd Fabritius.
21/01/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteurs have expressed their deep concern at a decision by Russia's Constitutional Court that a European Court of Human Rights ruling on the payment of compensation to YUKOS shareholders should not be enforced.
04/01/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have deplored the death sentence handed down on Kiryl Kazachok by a Belarusian court.
14/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“The purpose of my mandate is to assist Interpol in improving the effectiveness of its procedures aimed at ensuring respect for human rights,” said Bernd Fabritius at the opening of a hearing organised by the committee in Paris.
13/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE Committee on Legal Affairs meeting today in Paris, said that that effective protection of foreign investments “requires reliable, efficient and neutral dispute resolution mechanisms”.
13/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
According to the parliamentarians meeting today in Paris, “it is crucially important for a detainee to have access to a lawyer from the outset of the detention in order to guarantee that the rights of defence are practical and effective".
29/11/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Andrea Rigoni, Rapporteur on the situation in Belarus and Alain Destexhe, Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee, have expressed deep concern at press reports according to executions in Belarus.
24/11/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“I am shocked that Japan, an observer State with the Council of Europe, continues to apply the capital punishment”, declared Alain Destexhe, President of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.
17/11/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
I regret that the Russian Federation announced its intention to withdraw its signature from the Rome Statute, said Alain Destexhe, rapporteur charged with the follow-up to the report on co-operation with the International Criminal Court.
10/10/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, the Committee on Legal Affairs reaffirmed its commitment to the right to life and reiterated that abolition is a precondition for membership of the Council of Europe.
08/09/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee reaffirmed its full support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), the first ever permanent independent judicial body able to try people accused of the most serious crimes.
06/09/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Both in Crimea and in the conflict zone in the Donbas region, serious human rights violations have occurred and are still occurring, Marieluise Beck said when presenting her report today to the committee.