09/02/2016 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine by PACE, Jordi Xuclà and Axel Fischer, ending a visit to the country, have urged Ukraine’s parliamentarians to press ahead with constitutional changes on decentralisation.
09/02/2016 | President
Speaking to a Conference of Chairpersons of Committees of Foreign Affairs of National Parliaments in Sofia today, Pedro Agramunt called for “unity in the face of the many challenges we are confronted with”.
05/02/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Annette Groth, who is preparing a report on a stronger European response to the Syrian refugees crisis for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, is to visit Jordan and Lebanon from 8 to 13 February.
03/02/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE's rapporteur on international public health emergencies Silvia Bonet has welcomed the WHO decision declaring the Zika virus a Public Health Emergency. "This is an important step forward," she said.
03/02/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“We must raise awareness about the situation of intersex people, and act now to overcome the discrimination they routinely face,” said the Commissioner for Human Rights speaking at a Committee hearing.
02/02/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Sevinj Fataliyeva has suggested governments are “overlooking the most vulnerable” following a Europol report that thousands of unaccompanied migrant and refugee children have disappeared after arriving in Europe.
01/02/2016 | Monitoring
The committee welcomed the many reforms instigated in Montenegro since the adoption in January 2015 of Resolution 2030 on the electoral framework, the fight against corruption and the judiciary.
29/01/2016 | Session
The nine committees of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected this week their new Chairpersons: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, Mogens Jensen.
29/01/2016 | Session
PACE called on member States today to improve their education systems and “ensure access to quality education and regular class attendance until the end of the study programme for all children”.
29/01/2016 | Session
Corruption among judges undermines the foundations of the rule of law, severely impedes the protection of human rights and, according to the Assembly, public trust in the integrity of the judiciary continues to be very low in some member States.
29/01/2016 | Monitoring
Jordi Xuclà and Axel Fischer, co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Ukraine, will visit the country from 1 to 3 February, to assess notably the constitutional and judicial reforms.
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.