11/03/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“I want to ensure that children no longer leave home to die”, said Véronique Roy, the mother of a young man converted to Islam, who became radicalised and left for the Jihad in Syria, during committee hearing.
10/03/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two rapporteurs have strongly condemned the recent violent attacks which took place in Ingushetia against human rights activists from the Joint Mobile Group of the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” and journalists.
09/03/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“Strengthening democracy in Europe should be coupled with resolute efforts to fight corruption, including at the highest levels”, said Drago Kos, Chairperson of the OECD Working Group on Bribery.
09/03/2016 | Monitoring
The committee expresses its concern at recent developments in Turkey with respect notably to restrictions on media freedom and access to pluralistic information, and challenges to the decisions of the Constitutional Court.
08/03/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The committee has asked the Palestinian National Council (PNC) to speed up the reform process in accordance with the political commitments it made when it was granted “Partner for democracy” status by PACE.
08/03/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In its report on “the urgent need to prevent human rights violations during peaceful protests”, the committee expressed concern about recent restrictions in certain member states.
08/03/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The committee held an exchange of views on Tuesday 8 March in Paris on “The state of democracy and the rule of law in Poland”, with the participation of parliamentarians, NGOs and journalists.
07/03/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Challenging patriarchal values, sexist stereotypes and the perception of gender roles is at the core of the action undertaken by women’s rights activists, declared Elena Centemero on the eve of the International Women’s Day.
05/03/2016 | President
PACE President has expressed his serious concern at the decision taken by an Istanbul Court to entrust to state-appointed trustees the control of the media group to which Zaman and Today’s Zaman belong.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
Following his recent visit to Azerbaijan, PACE President Pedro Agramunt, adressing PACE's Standing Committee in Paris today, referred to the detention of Ilgar Mammadov, whom he met during his visit.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
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 the Standing Committee.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
Some provisions of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure need to be clarified, supplemented or reviewed in order, PACE Standing Committee said today during its meeting in Paris.