14/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“The purpose of my mandate is to assist Interpol in improving the effectiveness of its procedures aimed at ensuring respect for human rights,” said Bernd Fabritius at the opening of a hearing organised by the committee in Paris.
14/12/2016 | Monitoring
The committee declassified an information note by the co-rapporteurs, Ingebjørg Godskesen and Marianne Mikko on the post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, concerning the failed coup d’Etat of 15 July 2016 in Turkey.
14/12/2016 | Monitoring
The committee welcomed the reform programme put in place by the Ukrainian authorities, while reiterating the importance of comprehensive constitutional reform for the successful implementation of the overall reform of the country.
13/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE Committee on Legal Affairs meeting today in Paris, said that that effective protection of foreign investments “requires reliable, efficient and neutral dispute resolution mechanisms”.
13/12/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
According to the parliamentarians meeting today in Paris, “it is crucially important for a detainee to have access to a lawyer from the outset of the detention in order to guarantee that the rights of defence are practical and effective".
13/12/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Government of Switzerland has made a voluntary contribution of €225,513 to support the second phase of the “Parliamentary Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children”.
12/12/2016 | Election observation
The parliamentary elections of 11 December in "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" were competitive, and an essential step in resolving two years of deep political crisis, international election observers said.
12/12/2016 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Mogens Jensen welcomed "a testimony of the current crisis in international sports, which gives evidence of the systematic violation of anti-doping rules by Russian sports organisations."
11/12/2016 | President
Two blasts reportedly killed at least 38 people and wounded many more just hours near the Besiktas football stadium in Istanbul. "Our thoughts are with the victims, families and the Turkish people," the President stressed.
09/12/2016 | President
Speaking at the end of his visit to New York, Pedro Agramunt assured the UN SG-elect, Antonio Guterres, of the Council of Europe’s and the Assembly’s support in the implementation of the ambitious UN global agenda.
09/12/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE rapporteur Tineke Strik today responded to the European Commission’s recommendation that in three months from now, European countries should resume transferring asylum seekers to Greece under the Dublin regulation.
09/12/2016 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The 2017 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to Mémorial ACTe (MACTe), Caribbean Centre of Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery, Guadeloupe (France).