29/06/2018 | President
Parliaments are precious places of exchange in these challenging times, says PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier in a statement to mark the first ever World Parliament Day tomorrow.
29/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE rapporteurs Petra De Sutter and Domagoj Hajdukovic have jointly acknowledged the conclusions adopted last night by the EU Council on migration and sea rescue.
28/06/2018 | Session
As many as 70 Ukrainian citizens widely considered to be political prisoners are still detained in Crimea or the Russian Federation on politically motivated or fabricated charges. The Assembly called for their release.
28/06/2018 | Session
For the future of the Council of Europe to be secured, we must respect its underlying precept of effective multilateralism, in other words the process of seeking solutions together with due regard for international law, said Jean Asselborn.
28/06/2018 | Session
Social welfare decisions to remove children from the family should be "a last resort", only for the necessary period of time, and be a proportionate response to a "real risk of actual and serious harm", PACE has said.
28/06/2018 | Session
Forced marriage involves a series of violent acts against, primarily, women and girls – but also men and boys – and violates their rights to physical integrity, physical and mental health, freedom and autonomy, said PACE.
27/06/2018 | Session
PACE expressed its concern over new restrictions imposed on NGOs activities in several member States. The space for civil society has been shrinking, especially in the area of human rights, it said.
27/06/2018 | Monitoring
The impressive turnout in the elections held on 24 June in Turkey (88 per cent) and the diversity of parties in parliament are clear signs of the Turkish people’s attachment to pluralistic democracy.
27/06/2018 | Session
Council of Europe member States should put the protection of human life above all other considerations during sea rescues, PACE has said after a series of debates on the migration and refugee crisis.
27/06/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure has found that fourteen former members of the Assembly named in the report of the Independent Investigation Body looking into allegations of corruption within the Assembly have breached its Code of Conduct, and ruled that they should be deprived of the...
27/06/2018 | Session
PACE has urged the Russian Federation to conduct an impartial and effective investigation into the persecution of LGBTI people in the Chechen Republic, following the information published in 2017 by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
27/06/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Council of Europe member States should ensure gender sensitivity in the design and implementation of all integration policies for migrants and refugees, the PACE Equality Committee said.