31/10/2025 | Women free from violence
“I am dismayed to learn this week’s final vote of the Latvian Parliament to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, which deprives women victims of violence in Latvia of the protection and support mechanisms of this important Convention which is in application in 37 countries in Europe,” said the...
30/10/2025 | President
Speaking at the plenary session of the Nordic Council today, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos emphasised that although we have lived for almost eight decades in peace in Europe, this period “was only a parenthesis in history, which was rather made of long eras of tension, of wars, of...
30/10/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On the occasion of the International Day of Political Prisoners, PACE General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Azadeh Rojhan (Sweden, SOC) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on Political Prisoners, Steve Cohen (United States), made the following statement: “In his...
29/10/2025 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Ćudić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have expressed their deep concern at the ruling majority's decision to appeal to the Constitutional Court to ban three of the four democratic opposition parties. "As...
28/10/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Thousands of people die or disappear during migration journeys each year. Many others remain uncounted due to the lack of available data. How can national parliamentarians help prevent and respond to this human tragedy and serious human rights issue? A new PACE toolkit offers practical and...
24/10/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Exclusion, multiple discrimination, stigmatisation and demands to conform to stereotypical gender norms from an early age are part of everyday life for many intersex persons. Their rights are still too often unheeded or overlooked and, as a result, poorly protected,” said Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo...
23/10/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Five students in their late teens from the Central Foundations Schools in London addressed the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons on 20 October in the context of the report by Lord Leslie Griffiths (United Kingdom, SOC) on “The role of diasporas and migrants in building social...
23/10/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
In the lead-up to the implementation of PACE Resolution 2586 (2025) on “Immigration as a Strategic Response to Demographic Ageing”, the Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons held a high-level round table in London on 21 October 2025. The event brought...
23/10/2025 | Children of Ukraine
The Chair of the PACE Parliamentary network on the situation of the children of Ukraine, Olena Khomenko, today expressed her “deepest outrage and sorrow” at the brutal Russian missile and drone attacks carried out across Ukraine on 22 October 2025. “According to official Ukrainian sources, at...
23/10/2025 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), made the following statement today: “I am extremely concerned by the fast-tracking of parliamentary votes to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, scheduled in the Saeima today and next week...
23/10/2025 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
At its meeting on 1 October, the Committee on Rules, Ethics, and Immunities proposed amending the code of conduct for PACE members (contained in Appendix II to the Rules of Procedure) in order to have transparent and clear processes for identifying and managing conflicts of interest. “The...
21/10/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Lord Michael German (United Kingdom, ALDE), PACE rapporteur on ending the devastating humanitarian catastrophe and the killing of journalists in Gaza, and Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), PACE rapporteur on ending the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza, made the...