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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.