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Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights in member states

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...

Sexual assaults in Germany and Switzerland 'cannot remain unpunished'

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.

Working visit by PACE President to Germany

07/01/2016 | President

PACE President Anne Brasseur will make a working visit on 11-12 January to Berlin and Golzow, where she is due to meet the Minister of State for Migration, Refugees and Integration and the German delegation to PACE.

In 2016, living in democracies where human rights are respected

31/12/2015 | President

Anne Brasseur deplored that 2015 was a difficult year for Council of Europe values and expressed the hope that 2016 would be marked by the enjoyment of human rights and respect for the rule of law.

Republic of Moldova: Vlad Filat and Grigore Petrenco entitled to fair trials free from political interference

26/12/2015 | Monitoring

During his visit to Chisinau, Stefan Schennach looked into the detention conditions in Prison 13 of Vlad Filat, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, and Grigore Petrenco, former PACE member.

PACE President concerned by threat to the Rule of Law in Poland

22/12/2015 | President

I call on my parliamentary colleagues in Poland not to enact – precipitously – legislation relating to the Constitutional Tribunal which may seriously undermine the Rule of Law,” said Anne Brasseur.

UN Resolution "a good start" for Syria, says Brasseur

19/12/2015 | President

"At last the UN Security Council has the Syrian patient on the operating table" PACE President Anne Brasseur said, "and now it has to work out the cure to save the country."

“Migrants detained for administrative reasons are not criminals”

18/12/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation

PACE President Anne Brasseur and Thierry Mariani, Chairperson of its Committee on migration, refugees and displaced persons, today called for better regulation and monitoring of immigration detention.

Winter Session: international terrorism, migration crisis, election of the President

18/12/2015 | Session

Europe's migration and refugee crisis and international terrorism will take centre-stage at the PACE winter session (25-29 January 2016). The Assembly will also elect its President for a one-year term, renewable once.

Chairperson of the Monitoring Committee to make fact-finding a visit to the Republic of Moldova

18/12/2015 | Monitoring

Stefan Schennach, Chairperson of the Monitoring Committee will travel to the Republic of Moldova from 20 to 22 December with a view to examining the conditions of pre-trial detention of Vladimir Filat and Grigore Petrenco.

Monaco: concluding remarks of the former rapporteur's visit

18/12/2015 | Monitoring

The Monitoring Committee has declassified the concluding remarks of the former rapporteur on the post-monitoring dialogue with Monaco, Jordi Xuclà (Spain, ALDE) following the visit that took place on 12 October 2015.

Rapporteurs deeply concerned about law that allows Russia to ignore decisions of the ECHR

18/12/2015 | Monitoring

Theodora Bakoyannis and Liliane Maury Pasquier expressed deep concern about the signing into force by President Putin of the law that would allow the Constitutional Court of Russia to decide not to implement judgements by the ECHR.