15/12/2017 | Monitoring
While welcoming the progress made in a number of areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the committee remains concerned about the lack of progress in the field of constitutional reform and reform of the election law.
14/12/2017 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“The decision of the Ankara Governor’s Office to ban all events organised by LGBTI organisations within the province is stifling all forms of expression of LGBTI people”, said Piet De Bruyn, rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people.
14/12/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
In a discussion about the possible role of the Council of Europe in rebuilding of a “State” in Libya, the committee, along with experts, agreed that the priority is to put in place a minimal unified State.
13/12/2017 | Monitoring
The committee has adopted its annual report. It assesses the progress made by the ten countries under a monitoring procedure sensu stricto, as well as the three countries engaged in a post-monitoring dialogue.
12/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“A frightening arsenal of instruments of torture are still being manufactured, sold and marketed in a number of Council of Europe member States,” Vusal Huseynov told the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights today in Paris.
12/12/2017 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Committee is alarmed at the humanitarian situation which is the consequence of the war in Eastern Ukraine and of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. More than 4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
12/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, on the basis of a report by Sabien Lahaye-Battheu (Belgium, ALDE), today unanimously voted in favour of drafting a European convention on the profession of lawyer. The committee believes that greater protection should be offered to lawyers who, in...
11/12/2017 | Parliamentary support
The final report of the seminar on “Parliamentary Integrity: Promoting Transparency and Accountability Measures for Members of Parliament”, organised by the PACE and hosted by the Italian Parliament has been published.
08/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
To mark Human Rights Day 2017, Olena Sotnyk (Ukraine, ALDE), Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has called for Council of Europe member States to renew their commitment to the organisation’s basic standards as...
07/12/2017 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The vast majority of single-parent families in Europe are headed by the mother, and the consequences of possible non-compliance of child maintenance payments impacts women disproportionately, the Equality Committee said.
06/12/2017 | President
Stella Kyriakides has recognised the great efforts Greece continues to make to cope with the massive influx of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, and called for greater solidarity among European States.
06/12/2017 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The introduction of a citizenship income could help overcome poverty and guarantee decent living conditions for everyone, said the Social Affairs Committee, which has encouraged debate on this issue in each country.