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Sport for all as a bridge to equality and integration

12/10/2016 | Session

The Assembly called for a more integrated approach to promoting access to sport through increased co-operation between stakeholders and through establishing effective monitoring mechanisms of any form of discrimination.

Widespread support in PACE for a fourth Council of Europe summit

12/10/2016 | Session

It is time for a new Council of Europe summit – bringing together heads of state and government from the 47 member states – to relaunch the organisation and reaffirm its core mission.

Thomas Bach: governments and the Olympic movement have a common responsibility in the fight against doping

12/10/2016 | Session

"Both governments and the Olympic movement have a common objective, and that is a more robust, more efficient and more transparent anti-doping system,” the President of the International Olympic Committee said today.

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu: the values of the Council of Europe should inspire further reforms in Turkey

12/10/2016 | Session

"We will pursue our programme of constitutional and institutional reforms and we will continue to take into consideration the Council of Europe recommendations,” said Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Foreign Minister of Turkey.

Call on the ICC Prosecutor to recognise her jurisdiction over the authors of war crimes in Syria and Iraq

12/10/2016 | Session

The Assembly restated its full support for the ICC, the first ever permanent independent judicial institution with jurisdiction over individuals accused of the most serious crimes affecting the whole international community.

Ukraine: only ‘significant progress’ by Russia can form basis for full-fledged dialogue

12/10/2016 | Session

PACE has said that only “significant and measurable progress” by Russia towards implementation of three recent resolutions of the Assembly* can form the basis for restoration of a fully-fledged, mutually respectful dialogue.

PACE urges Russia to enable re-establishment of the rule of law in the whole of eastern Ukraine

12/10/2016 | Session

the Parliamentary Assembly has said that Russia must guarantee the human rights of all inhabitants of Crimea and of the “DPR” and “LPR”, territories where it exercises de facto control, adopting a resolution today.

The Parliamentary Assembly marks breast-cancer awareness month

12/10/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

The committee organised a breast cancer awareness-raising event. The President and members of the Assembly as well as the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, showed their support by wearing the pink ribbon.

French President François Hollande meets with PACE President Pedro Agramunt

11/10/2016 | Session

French President François Hollande met with PACE President Pedro Agramunt this morning in Strasbourg. Mr Hollande will be addressing the Assembly later this morning.

François Hollande: ‘We need the Council of Europe more than ever’

11/10/2016 | Session

“France stands shoulder to shoulder with the Council of Europe, and I am sure that the Council of Europe stands shoulder to shoulder with France, in upholding peace, freedom and democracy,” said the French President.

OECD calls on policy makers to adopt a broader and more inclusive approach to productivity growth

11/10/2016 | Session

The Deputy Secretary General OECD today urged that everything be done to address the concerns of the unemployed by “creating more inclusive societies where the benefits of growth are more equally shared”.

#NoHateNoFear: Justice and remembrance for the victims of terrorism

11/10/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy

In a debate on the initiative against terrorism #NoHateNoFear, Antoine Leiris, who lost his wife at the Bataclan, called for a European way of honouring the memory of the victims and a mechanism for recognising victims.