11/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two PACE rapporteurs have expressed serious concern at the arrest of Oyub Titiev, a prominent human rights defender and head of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Chechen Republic.
11/01/2018 | Monitoring
The Sub-Committee on conflicts between Council of Europe member States will hold a round table on the Transnistrian settlement process, with representatives of the Moldovan authorities and the Transnistrian de facto authorities.
04/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"Yesterday, the Knesset gave its preliminary approval for legislation that would make it easier for a court to impose a death sentence for murder in attacks classified as terrorism. This is a worrying development," said Yves Cruchten.
31/12/2017 | President
"2017 has been a year of extraordinary challenges for the Council of Europe. Now, as we approach 2018, we need to take stock of where we are and to provide hope for the coming year", PACE President Stella Kyriakides said.
21/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have denounced the upholding of two death sentences by the Supreme Court of Belarus.
21/12/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have denounced the upholding of two death sentences by the Supreme Court of Belarus.
20/12/2017 | Bureau
At its last meeting, the Bureau decided to set up an ad hoc Committee on ‘The role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly’. Its purpose is to make proposals to the Bureau on the implementation of the Resolution 2186.
18/12/2017 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“This year, International Migration Day is probably the most inglorious day for Europe”, today said Petra De Sutter (Belgium, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on conditions of reception of refugees and migrants.
18/12/2017 | Bureau
The Bureau took note of and declassified the report drawn up by the Sub-Committee on Human Rights on the hearing of the candidates to the post of Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.
18/12/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The proposal by Titus Corlatean to define the role that Europe could play in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was largely echoed by the Political Affairs Committee, which requested to hold an urgent debate.
15/12/2017 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
On International Migrants’ Day (18 December), the committee calls on Council of Europe member States to put the humanitarian situation of migrants, refugees and IDPs back at the top of their agendas.
15/12/2017 | President
Following a meeting of the Presidential Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly with members of the Russian Parliament in Paris on 14 December 2017, Stella Kyriakides reported that discussions had been 'open and honest'.