25/11/2025 | Women free from violence
A parliamentary round table at the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau focused on what parliamentarians can do to implement the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s legal standard on combating violence against women, and heard from leading Moldovan officials the progress...
24/11/2025 | Elections
An 11-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by Georgios Stamatis (Greece, EPP/CD), will travel to the Kyrgyz Republic from 28 November to 1 December to observe the early parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE Parliamentary...
24/11/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Online violence against women and girls, facilitated by new technologies and the insufficient regulation of artificial intelligence and online platforms, is growing exponentially and is a serious threat to the human rights of women and girls,” declared PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states, met in the Moldovan capital Chisinau on Friday 21 November 2025. On 14 November 2025 the Republic of Moldova began...
21/11/2025 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in partnership with the Government of Iceland, has issued a call for nominations for the 2026 Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment. The deadline for submitting nominations for this third edition of the Prize is 27 March 2026. Launched in...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Chisinau today, decided to amend the code of conduct for PACE members (contained in Appendix II to the Rules of Procedure) in order to have transparent and clear processes for identifying and managing conflicts of interest. The establishment of an “adequate...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
At its meeting in Chisinau today, the PACE Standing Committee emphasised the importance of the Assembly’s members' active commitment at a time when multilateralism and democracy are under strain. Participation lends legitimacy to the Assembly's decisions; it is not merely a procedural formality...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Chisinau today, has proposed a set of measures to prevent and combat gender discrimination and gender-based violence in healthcare, medical research and clinical trials. According to PACE, access to healthcare remains unequal and gender discrimination in...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
At the opening of a meeting of the Assembly’s Standing Committee in Chisinau PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos pledged the Assembly’s support for the priorities of the new Republic of Moldova Presidency, which began earlier this month, declaring they were “perfectly consistent” with the...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
In an address to the parliamentarians at the opening of the Standing Committee’s meeting in Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mihai Popșoi – and Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers – set out the three main priorities of the six...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The President of the Moldovan Parliament Igor Grosu, welcoming PACE’s Standing Committee to Chisinau, underlined the significance of Moldova taking on the Presidency at a moment of acute geopolitical tension. “Today, as we take over the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
PACE’s Standing Committee, meeting in Chisinau, held a current affairs debate on “Citizens’ mobilisation in the defence of human rights and democracy: recent developments in Latvia”, focusing on the unprecedented public mobilisation that followed the attempt to withdraw Latvia from the Istanbul...