07/05/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Expressing concern about the situation of detainees with disabilities, the committee has denounced States’ failure to ensure accessibility and reasonable accommodation for their specific needs.
02/05/2018 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Marking World Press Freedom Day (3 May), Lord George Foulkes, General Rapporteur on media freedom and the safety of journalists, has highlighted the fundamental role of journalists and the media in democratic societies.
02/05/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The network on diaspora policies, in co-operation with the IOM, will organise on 18 May in Geneva its first annual Forum dedicated to "Diasporas as partners for development in the globalised world".
27/04/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs re-affirmed that the best interest of the child “should be a primary consideration in all actions concerning children”, in accordance with the United Nations Convention.
27/04/2018 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly today has warned of the new threat of “hybrid war,” in which adversaries combine traditional military action with other hostile acts in the information sphere.
27/04/2018 | Session
PACE called on member States to ensure that every tuberculosis patient is effectively diagnosed and has access to appropriate treatment and care, as well as to psycho-social support.
27/04/2018 | Session
PACE has urged Council of Europe member States to provide free schooling for all migrant children, in line with their international undertakings, and to treat them in the same way as other children for educational purposes.
26/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
Strasbourg, 26.04.2018 - The Assembly intends to draw all the necessary consequences, on all levels, from the conclusions of the investigation body on corruption allegations within PACE, “which are now indisputable”. This applies to recommendations aimed at improving its general operating...
26/04/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today held a current affairs debate on Europe's role in peacemaking initiatives in Syria, opened by Rósa Björk Brynjolfsdottir.
26/04/2018 | Session
The Assembly has expressed certain concerns with regard to the Copenhagen Declaration on the reform of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights, adopted at a ministerial conference in April.
26/04/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly noted with deep concern that the confiscation of criminal assets is often prevented by “an unreasonably heavy burden of proof placed on the competent national authorities.
26/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The Rules Committee has delivered its findings on the behaviour of the first three individual PACE members mentioned in the report of the independent investigation body looking into allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly – and decided to postpone a decision on a fourth. The...