14/03/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
CoE member States should go beyond security measures and work with Muslim communities and other priority audiences to produce “tailored, flexible and positive” alternative narratives to terrorist propaganda, the committee said.
12/03/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The situation in Syria has severely deteriorated to the extent that the UN Secretary General has described it as ‘hell on earth’ and the international community has failed to achieve a political solution,” said Dora Bakoyannis.
12/03/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Council of Europe should contribute to the efforts of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya to set up unified state structures in the country, said the committee approving a report by Attila Korodi.
11/03/2018 | President
On the occasion of the European Day for Remembrance of the Victims of Terrorism, Michele Nicoletti has paid tribute to the victims and survivors of terrorist attacks, and sent a message of solidarity and support.
09/03/2018 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The committee has proposed to the PACE to remove Turkish from PACE’s list of working languages. According to the committee, “the draconian reduction” of the Assembly’s budget for 2018 and 2019 “calls for drastic measures”.
08/03/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
As Women’s Day is celebrated around the world, the Committee on Equality acknowledges the progress achieved towards greater equality between women and men while taking stock of the challenges that lie ahead.
08/03/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, former rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have strongly condemned the execution of Kiryl Kazachok.
01/03/2018 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Parliamentarians from Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Sweden and Andorra voted most often in plenary debates of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly during 2017, according to statistics made public.
26/02/2018 | Monitoring
Georgia monitoring co-rapporteurs Kerstin Lundgren and Titus Corlăţean have expressed their deep concern at, and condemned, the death of a Georgian citizen while being detained by the de facto authorities in Tskhinvali.
26/02/2018 | President
PACE President Michele Nicoletti has condemned the murders of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his partner, Martina Kušnírová, whose bodies were found at their home near Bratislava with gunshot wounds.
23/02/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Danish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers, the Danish Parliament and PACE will hold a conference on private and family life for LGBTI people. The keynote speech will be delivered by Ireland’s Minister for Children.
22/02/2018 | Parliamentary support
The creation of a politically neutral and professional civil service for Ukraine’s parliament was the main topic at a public discussion in Kyiv on 22 February focusing on reform of the parliament’s administration.