06/12/2017 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Children traumatised by armed conflict need specialised support to re-build trust and create “new positive life experiences”, the Social Affairs Committee has said, approving a draft resolution, based on a report by Sevinj Fataliyeva.
05/12/2017 | Parliamentary support
A conference on the role of national parliaments in improving independence and pluralism of the media, organised by the Parliamentary Projects Support Division will be held in Budapest on 6 December.
05/12/2017 | Prizes
The 2018 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to the War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The museum was selected by the PACE Culture Committee at a meeting in Budapest today.
04/12/2017 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The crisis of confidence in major sports governing bodies "seems nowhere near the end”, according to the Committee on Culture, meeting in Budapest today. The committee called for those responsible to be “brought to justice”.
04/12/2017 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Charter for Regional and Minority Languages plays a unique role in protecting and supporting these languages. The committee therefore regrets to note that, to date, only 25 of the 47 member states have ratified the Charter.
04/12/2017 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The committee called on the authorities of the EU, in concertation with the IOC, FIFA, UEFA and the CoE, “to promote the establishment of an independent observatory entrusted to assess the governance of football”.
04/12/2017 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Adopting the draft resolution unanimously based on the report by Elvira Drobinski-Weiss, the members of the Parliamentary Assembly ask European governments to fully assume their obligation to protect media professionals.
01/12/2017 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Promoting full inclusion of persons with disabilities in society on a daily basis is the only way to deconstruct the barriers of prejudice and change mentalities” stressed Ms Centemero ahead of the Day of Persons with Disabilities.
01/12/2017 | President
Stella Kyriakides is to make an official visit to Greece from 5 to 6 December 2017. She will meet the President of the Republic, the Speaker of Parliament and the Prime Minister, among others.
30/11/2017 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
"I noted the immense efforts achieved by the Georgian Government in providing housing, welfare and social integration for the hundreds of thousands of persons displaced from the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia," said Killion Munyama.
28/11/2017 | Monitoring
The monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Kerstin Lundgren and Titus Corlăţean, have welcomed the improvement of the constitutional framework in Georgia as a result of the adoption of the Constitutional amendments.
24/11/2017 | Standing Committee
“Our parliamentary assemblies must continue to work together and face new realities but must never compromise on our principles,” George Tsereteli, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, has told PACE members.