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.
06/05/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A three-year Council of Europe pilot project in Cyprus to strengthen policies against sexual abuse of children has been hailed as “a great example” for the rest of Europe. Stella Kyriakides presented the results in Strasbourg.
04/05/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am concerned about the Duma’s proposal to further amend the Federal Law on Non-Commercial Organisations", said Yves Cruchten, rapporteur on 'How can inappropriate restrictions on NGO activities in Europe be prevented?'
02/05/2016 | Monitoring
Boriss Cilevičs and Kerstin Lundgren, co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 3-5 May 2016.
29/04/2016 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for monitoring of the Republic of Moldova, Valentina Leskaj and Ögmundur Jónasson, have called on the Moldovan authorities to adopt and implement the reforms announced.
29/04/2016 | News
PACE Secretary General Wojciech Sawicki welcomed the Secretary General of the OSCE PA, Roberto Montella, and his counterpart from NATO PA, David Hobbs, for the latest in regular consultations.
28/04/2016 | Election observation
A delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was in Skopje on 26 and 27 April 2016 to assess the pre-electoral climate of the early parliamentary elections scheduled for 5 June 2016.