04/05/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am concerned about the Duma’s proposal to further amend the Federal Law on Non-Commercial Organisations", said Yves Cruchten, rapporteur on 'How can inappropriate restrictions on NGO activities in Europe be prevented?'
19/04/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee has pointed to “a climate of pervading fear in an atmosphere of personalisation of power” in the Chechen Republic and said that recommendations it made remain “largely unimplemented”.
19/04/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Participants at a joint Parliamentary Assembly hearing on “The conflict in Eastern Ukraine: political and human rights concerns” agreed that it was important to keep the situation in Ukraine high on the agenda.
14/04/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two rapporteurs have expressed concern at the suspension, by the Prosecutor installed in Crimea by the Russian Federation, of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, the executive body of the Tatar people.
08/04/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marieluise Beck and Kristýna Zelienková, ending a four-day fact-finding visit to Kiyv, Mariupol and Dnipropetrovsk, have expressed their concern at the renewed deterioration of the security situation along the contact line.
01/04/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteurs Marieluise Beck and Kristýna Zelienková will make a joint fact-finding visit to Kyiv, Mariupol and Dnipropetrovsk from 4 to 7 April, in the context of the preparation of their respective reports.
10/03/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two rapporteurs have strongly condemned the recent violent attacks which took place in Ingushetia against human rights activists from the Joint Mobile Group of the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” and journalists.
08/03/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In its report on “the urgent need to prevent human rights violations during peaceful protests”, the committee expressed concern about recent restrictions in certain member states.
17/02/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Meritxell Mateu, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, deplore the new death sentence handed down by a Belarusian court.
14/01/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus and Marietta Karamanli, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, said they were appalled by the death sentence on Henadz Yakavitski.
11/01/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Examples of the positive impact that the European Convention on Human Rights has so far had within the 47 member states of the Council of Europe have been compiled in an information document published today.
08/12/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Adopting a report on the protection and role of human rights defenders, the Legal Affairs Committee has expressed deep concern about increased reprisals against them in certain Council of Europe member states.