13/06/2018 | Bureau
At its meeting in Zagreb on 1 June, the Bureau's ad hoc Committee on the role and mission of the PACE held an exchange of views on the basis of a revised memorandum prepared by its Chairman and decided to declassify it.
12/06/2018 | Parliamentary support
A regional conference on “Women in politics: how to progress towards equality?” will be held by the Assembly in Rabat on 5 July, in the framework of the Joint Program between the Council of Europe and the European Union.
11/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Doris Fiala, Chairperson of the Migration Committee, has commended Spain for its offer to open the port of Valencia to the Aquarius, now drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants on board.
08/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“I am dismayed at the Turkish authorities’ announcement that its readmission agreement with Greece has been suspended, following the release from custody in Greece of Turkish soldiers seeking asylum in Greece".
05/06/2018 | Session
PACE is scheduled to elect its new President at its summer session in Strasbourg. VIPs to address members include the Croatian and Slovak Prime Ministers as well as the Luxembourg Foreign Minister.
05/06/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Forced marriage is not simply a question of being forced to accept a spouse but involves a series of violent acts against primarily women and girls and concerns all members States,” said Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo.
05/06/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Russian Federation has been urged to investigate the persecution of LGBTI people in the Chechen Republic, following reports in 2017 of cases of abduction, arbitrary detention and torture of gay men”.
05/06/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE’s Equality Committee has set out a wealth of measures Council of Europe member States should take to promote women's empoerment in the economy, whether as empolyees, managers or entrepreneurs.
04/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
At the end of a fact-finding visit to Ankara, Istanbul and Kirklareli, PACE rapporteur Tineke Strik has praised Turkey’s great efforts to manage the 3.6 million migrants in the country.
04/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee has said that greater financial support from the international community for refugees in the countries neighbouring Syria is “indispensable”, while calling on these countries to maintain an “open-door” policy.
04/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Meeting today in Paris, the Migration Committee has called on Council of Europe member States to allow applications for asylum from outside the country “as an exceptional measure on humanitarian grounds”.
04/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee has urged the EU or individual states making agreements with third countries for “external” border control or asylum processing to ensure that they guarantee human rights.