24/04/2017 | Session
"It is important that the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly, as well as the Secretary General, continue to concert their efforts to face up to the challenges confronting Europe," said Ioannis Kasoulides.
24/04/2017 | Session
PACE members took part in a “free debate” this afternoon, in which they could speak on any current topic not already included in the session agenda. Some 50 parliamentarians put their names down to speak.
21/04/2017 | Prizes
The deadline for submission of nominations for the 2017 Václav Havel Prize - which aims to reward outstanding civil society action in defending human rights in Europe and beyond - is 30 April.
21/04/2017 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee for the Russian Federation have expressed their serious concern regarding recent developments in relation to the respect for human rights in the Russian Federation.
19/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"President Erdogan should be under no illusion: reintroducing the death penalty would be simply incompatible with Turkey’s continued membership", said Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty.
17/04/2017 | Election observation
The 16 April constitutional referendum in Turkey was contested on an unlevel playing field, and the two sides in the campaign did not have equal opportunities, the international observers concluded in a statement released today.
13/04/2017 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Gabriela Heinrich, who is preparing a report for the Parliamentary Assembly on “migration from a gender perspective: empowering women as key actors for integration”, is to visit Norway from 18 to 19 April.
12/04/2017 | Session
The functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey will take centre-stage at the Spring plenary part-session of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly to be held in Strasbourg from 24 to 28 April.
12/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am shocked that the State of Arkansas, which has not executed any prisoners since 2005, is planning to carry out seven executions in the space of eleven days," says PACE's Yves Cruchten.
10/04/2017 | Election observation
Following an invitation from the authorities, the PACE will send a 20-member delegation to Turkey to observe the conduct of the referendum on constitutional amendments, alongside observers from the OSCE-ODIHR.
09/04/2017 | President
PACE President Pedro Agramunt expressed his condolences to the victims of the two blasts in the Coptic Churches in Tanta and in Alexandria, Egypt. "I strongly condemn these heinous attacks against innocent people," he said.
07/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten has condemned three executions carried out in the Gaza Strip by Hamas and urged PNC partners to intervene with Hamas to halt all executions in Gaza and to abolish the death penalty in Palestinian law.