18/01/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Michele Nicoletti will conduct a fact-finding visit to Kyiv on 19-20 January, in the context of the preparation of his report on “Corruption as a governance regime: a barrier to institutional efficiency and progress”.
15/01/2016 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly has issued a call for nominations for the 2016 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which will be awarded for the fourth consecutive year on 10 October next in Strasbourg.
15/01/2016 | Prizes
The deadline for Mayors to submit candidatures for the Europe Prize – a series of awards sponsored by PACE which honour towns and cities for upholding the European ideal – has been extended by a week
15/01/2016 | Monitoring
"Yesterday’s attack on the police headquarters in Çınar that left six people dead, including three children, and 39 wounded, is a new, unacceptable upsurge of violence in south-east Turkey," said the co-rapporteurs.
14/01/2016 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and its intervention resulting in a military conflict in eastern Ukraine have generated a climate of distrust against a background of a “war of sanctions”, the committee said.
14/01/2016 | Session
Europe's migration and refugee crisis, international terrorism and the functioning of democratic institutions in Poland will take centre-stage at the PACE Winter Session (Strasbourg, 25-29 January 2016).
14/01/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus and Marietta Karamanli, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, said they were appalled by the death sentence on Henadz Yakavitski.
14/01/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus and Marietta Karamanli, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, said they were appalled by the death sentence on Henadz Yakavitski handed down by the Minsk Regional Court in Belarus.
13/01/2016 | President
“Integration should be the top priority in dealing with migrants and refugees,” said Anne Brasseur, ending a visit to Berlin and Golzow, while praising Germany’s 'humanist response' to the current crisis.
12/01/2016 | President
“Terrorism has once again struck one of our member States today. I deplore and strongly condemn the bomb attack in Istanbul. My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of the victims”.
11/01/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Examples of the positive impact that the European Convention on Human Rights has so far had within the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, parties to the Convention, have been compiled in an information document upon the request of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ (France, SOC), Rapporteur on the...
11/01/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"I firmly condemn the mass sexual assaults perpetrated on 31 December in Germany and Switzerland", said Sahiba Gafarova, Parliamentary Assembly General Rapporteur on Violence against Women.