20/04/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has expressed outrage at the execution in Alabama of 83-year-old convicted murderer Walter Leroy Moody, by a lethal injection of drugs.
19/04/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Key challenges and policy responses in the areas of children’s mental health and child friendly justice will be discussed at a meeting organised on 24 April in Strasbourg by the Committee on Social Affairs.
16/04/2018 | Election observation
"Fundamental freedoms were respected in the 15 April Montenegro presidential election, although the governing party candidate held an institutional advantage," the international observers concluded today.
12/04/2018 | President
“As a constitutional instrument of the European public order, the Convention provides a solid legal foundation for European unity,” said PACE President Michele Nicoletti, speaking today at a conference in Copenhagen. He advocated the need for reaffirming the Court’s authority as “an independent...
12/04/2018 | Election observation
Azerbaijan election lacked genuine competition in an environment of curtailed rights and freedoms, say international observers from PACE, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the OSCE’s ODIHR.
11/04/2018 | Election observation
A 13-member PACE delegation, led by Jonas Gunnarsson, will travel to Montenegro from 13 to 16 April to observe the Presidential election, alongside observers from the EP and the OSCE-ODIHR.
09/04/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I call on the Turkish authorities to lift the state of emergency as quickly as possible", Yves Cruchten, PACE rapporteur on “Preventing inappropriate restrictions on NGO activities in Europe”, said at the end of a visit to Ankara.
09/04/2018 | Monitoring
Co-rapporteurs have welcomed Moldova’s continuing commitment to European values, but urged the authorities to continue reforms and create conditions conducive to free and fair elections.
06/04/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Empowering Roma and Traveller women is crucial to achieving equality of opportunities, for all Roma and Travellers in European societies,” said Gabriela Heinrich, ahead of Roma Day (8 April 2018).
06/04/2018 | Parliamentary support
A seminar on the misuse of administrative resources during electoral processes will take place on 10-11 April in Tirana. It is organised by the PACE, the Venice Commission and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.
05/04/2018 | Monitoring
Marianne Mikko and Nigel Evans, PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, have expressed serious concern over the deterioration of the situation in Turkey ahead of the forthcoming 2019 elections.
04/04/2018 | Election observation
A 33-member PACE delegation, led by Viorel Riceard Badea, will observe the early Presidential election in Azerbaijan on 11 April,alongside observers from the OSCE-PA and the OSCE-ODIHR.