04/05/2017 | News
Rapporteurs have called on the authorities of Azerbaijan to conduct an urgent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of blogger Mehman Galandarov, who was found hanged in his cell in a Baku prison.
04/05/2017 | Monitoring
The monitoring co-rapporteurs of Azerbaijan, Stefan Schennach and Cezar Florin Preda, have expressed concern over the death of blogger Mehman Galandarov, who was found hanged in his cell in Baku Detention Centre No.1 on 28 April.
02/05/2017 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE's Committee on Culture has called for stronger commitment from governments to guaranteeing journalists’ security and freedom and upholding media pluralism and independence.
02/05/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Josette Durrieu, rapporteur on “The evaluation of the Partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of Jordan”, started a three-day visit to Amman. She will meet, in particular, the Prime Minister and the Speakers of both Chambers of Parliament.
28/04/2017 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Committee on Equality expressed its deep concern at the growing trend in European countries and beyond to challenge the achievements made in the field of women’s rights over recent decades.
28/04/2017 | Bureau
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting in Strasbourg today, resolved that it has no confidence in Pedro Agramunt as President of the Assembly.
28/04/2017 | Session
Adopting a recommendation, the Parliamentary Assembly today said the Council of Europe should consider how intelligent artefacts and/or connected devices “challenge different dimensions of human rights”.
28/04/2017 | Monitoring
"We are shocked by the storming of the Parliament yesterday in Skopje. We firmly condemn these violent and unacceptable attacks against parliamentarians", said Lise Christoffersen and Valeriu Ghiletchi.
28/04/2017 | Prizes
The deadline for the submission of nominations for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2017, has been extended by two months. The new deadline has been fixed on 30 June 2017, instead of the original deadline of 30 April.
28/04/2017 | Session
In an opinion adopted today on the basis of a report by Stefan Schennach, PACE welcomed the Committee of Ministers’ initiative in drawing up a Convention on Offences relating to Cultural Property and proposed a few amendments.
28/04/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The committee has deeply regretted that a positive trend of greater international openness and dialogue between Belarus and the Assembly has been undermined by the recent escalation of violence against peaceful protesters.
27/04/2017 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
During its next plenary session, PACE will dedicate a full day of debates to “Migration and Refugees”. The report by Andrea Rigoni will allow members to discuss a series of concrete measures aimed at facilitating mutually beneficial migration to Europe.