28/01/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
In unanimously adopting a report on “Systematic collection of data on violence against women” the committee stressed that violence against women cannot be combatted effectively without reliable data.
28/01/2016 | Session
PACE has called on Council of Europe member states to do more to protect human rights defenders and to ensure an enabling environment for NGOs, during a joint debate on reports by Mailis Reps and Yves Cruchten.
27/01/2016 | Session
"National parliamentarians should be afforded adequate safeguards in relation to third countries when travelling abroad in the course of their duties," said the Assembly.
27/01/2016 | Session
International co-operation and intelligence sharing are essential if the activities of organised criminal groups related to migration are to be combated effectively, according to the Parliamentary Assembly.
27/01/2016 | Session
PACE has given its backing to the creation of “hotspots” to process asylum applications outside Europe – in order to identify people needing international protection before they undertake dangerous sea journeys.
27/01/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
"The continuing detention by the Russian Federation of Nadiia Savchenko, Ukrainian parliamentarian and member of the Migration, Committee, constitutes a flagrant violation of human rights and a serious case of political persecution”.
27/01/2016 | President
“Today is a date to remember not only the victims of former horrors, those that were abandoned, but also the victims of today and tomorrow”, PACE President said addressing a ceremony in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
27/01/2016 | Session
“The threat of terrorism is ever present in our countries. It would be a grave mistake to try to play the fight against terrorism off against human rights protection,” said the French State Secretary for European Affairs.
27/01/2016 | Session
The member States need sufficient legal instruments to combat terrorism efficiently but there is a risk that "counterterrorism measures may introduce disproportionate restrictions or sap democratic control".
27/01/2016 | Session
In the face of the growing threat to security, parliamentarians believe that it is “essential to deepen the understanding of its root causes and devise appropriate policy responses to address them”.
27/01/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Laws on nationality in Cyprus, Norway, Romania and Switzerland “contain insufficient or no safeguards against childhood statelessness, in breach of regional and international obligations,” according to a draft report.
27/01/2016 | Session
Although the composition of the Moldovan delegation “does not comply” with the rule on balance, the Assembly decided to ratify the credentials of the delegation and asked a complete list by the beginning of the April session.