29/08/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, general rapporteur of the PACE on the abolition of the death penalty, expressed his outrage at the execution, last Thursday in Florida, of Mark James Asay, convicted of a double murder in 1988.
29/08/2017 | Prizes
The selection panel of the Václav Havel Prize 2017 today drew up the shortlist of candidatures in Prague. The shortlisted nominees are Murat Arslan (Turkey), the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Father Georg Sporschill (Austria).
25/08/2017 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Volodymyr Ariev, PACE General Rapporteur on Media Freedom and the Safety of Journalists, today expressed concern regarding the detention of the Director of the Turan agency (Azerbaijan), Mehman Aliyev.
24/08/2017 | Prizes
The Selection Panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize will meet on 29 August in Prague to determine a shortlist of three nominees from among the candidatures received. The 2017 prizewinner will be announced on 9 October in Strasbourg.
21/08/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I condemn the Red Notice against Dogan Akhanli requested by Turkey and invite Interpol to re-examine it in light of the rules outlawing politically-motivated interventions and to delete the Notice as appropriate”, Bernd Fabritius said.
18/08/2017 | News
Sir Roger Gale, the most senior Vice-President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), has strongly condemned yesterday’s terror attack in Barcelona, in which 13 people were killed and many dozens hurt.
03/08/2017 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Petra De Sutter today underlined the urgency of taking a clear position on the practical use of new genetic technologies following the publication of a new study in the journal Nature.
01/08/2017 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day, Milena Santerini calls to strengthen their efforts to ensure that sites where Roma were persecuted and exterminated during World War II are recognised.
24/07/2017 | Monitoring
Samad Seyidov and Maria Guzenina assessed progress made by Serbia in fulfilling its Council of Europe obligations, concluding that this is accelerating with Serbia’s continued aspiration to join the EU.
24/07/2017 | 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 two death sentences handed down by the Mogilev regional court in Belarus.
24/07/2017 | 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 two death sentences handed down by the Mogilev regional court in Belarus.
18/07/2017 | Monitoring
In an information note on “The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland”, the Monitoring Committee voiced concern about the “political and constitutional crisis” that had followed the 2015 parliamentary elections.