17/05/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In a meeting in Rome, Michele Nicoletti referred to the need for a positive relationship between national parliaments and the Council of Europe to extend the scope of human rights protection and secure the independence of the judiciary.
17/05/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee expressed concern that administrative detention has been abused to punish political opponents, obtain confessions in the absence of a lawyer, or for stifling peaceful protest.
14/05/2016 | President
At the end of his official visit to Ukraine, PACE President Pedro Agramunt welcomed the strong commitment of the Ukrainian authorities and of the newly-appointed government to move towards European values and standards.
12/05/2016 | President
PACE President, Pedro Agramunt, today begins a two-day official visit to Ukraine (12-13 May), following the formation of a new government.He is due to meet, notably, President Petro Poroshenko.
12/05/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committees on Legal Affairs and Rules of Procedure of the Parliamentary Assembly will meet on 17 and 18 May 2016 at the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome, at the invitation of the Italian delegation to PACE.
12/05/2016 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Committees on Legal Affairs and Rules of Procedure of the Parliamentary Assembly will meet on 17 and 18 May 2016 at the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome, at the invitation of the Italian delegation to PACE.
11/05/2016 | Parliamentary support
With a view to the forthcoming parliamentary elections (September 2016), a round table on electoral standards and the electoral process improvement in Belarus will take place in Minsk on 18 May 2016.
10/05/2016 | Monitoring
Boriss Cilevics and Kerstin Lundgren welcome the intention of the Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of the Georgian Parliament to send the proposed amendments to the laws to the Venice Commission for opinion.
09/05/2016 | Monitoring
Alan Meale and Giuseppe Galati, monitoring co-rapporteurs for Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 11 and 12 May, focusing on the follow-up to constitutional changes, electoral reform and the fight against corruption.
09/05/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Meritxell Mateu, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, strongly condemn another execution carried out in Belarus.
09/05/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Meritxell Mateu, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, strongly condemn another execution carried out in Belarus.
06/05/2016 | Monitoring
Ingebjørg Godskesen and Nataša Vuckovic, co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, are to pay a fact-finding visit to the country from 9 to 12 May, to look at the functioning of democratic institutions.