22/03/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Europe has so far failed to find a proper, sustainable response to the refugee and migration crisis in the Western Balkans. Mutual trust and confidence have been undermined by unilateral actions, said the committee, meeting in Tbilisi.
22/03/2016 | President
“I am deeply shocked by the attacks in Brussels that killed so many people and left many others injured,” said Pedro Agramunt. “These attacks, at the heart of Europe, are a direct attack on our European values and freedoms”.
22/03/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Those fleeing conflict in Syria are entitled to international protection which is best provided in countries close to home. These neighbouring countries cannot provide that protection without extensive external support.
21/03/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"While significant progress has been achieved globally in combating racial discrimination in the last decades, the fight is far from won", PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination stated.
21/03/2016 | Elections
The elections were efficiently organised, but they indicated that Kazakhstan still has a considerable way to go in meeting its OSCE commitments for democratic elections, the observers concluded.
21/03/2016 | President
As the Court reads out its verdict, and given the serious questions regarding the fairness of her trial, I once again call for Nadiya Savchenko’s immediate release, said PACE President Pedro Agramunt.
18/03/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Addressing the Interparliamentary Conference on the European Social Charter, Michele Nicoletti, President of the Italian delegation, warned that the real danger today were internal fears and divisions and not external threats.
18/03/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter, Tuur Elzinga stressed that "in many European countries, the state of income inequalities is shocking and leads to a marginalisation of certain categories of the population".
18/03/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Milena Santerini, General Rapporteur against Racism and Intolerance today condemned the hateful and racist acts perpetrated by football supporters in the streets of European cities against Roma women.
17/03/2016 | President
In the face of the challenges ahead, in particular the refugee crisis and the rise of populism, we need Pan-European solidarity and a multilateral response based on the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights.
17/03/2016 | President
“I have received the good news that 148 persons have been released today in Azerbaijan, including Anar Mammadli, winner of the Vaclav Havel Prize, along with political activists, journalists and human rights defenders.”
16/03/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A committee has called for the withdrawal of a draft Council of Europe legal text on the involuntary placement and treatment of people with mental health problems on the ground that its basic premise is “discriminatory”.