27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
"The first statement I made in my capacity as Chairman of the Committee of Ministers was a message of sympathy and support for the French population and its authorities in this terrible ordeal," Daniel Mitov said today.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
PACE has given its backing to online dispute resolution (ODR), as well as other innovative uses of information technology, as a way of improving individuals’ access to justice.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Sofia, today said that “nobody should die in detention” and recalled the right to equivalent medical care for detainees.
27/11/2015 | Monitoring
Co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey have questioned the arrests of two prominent journalists, Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, as well as the eight-year sentence facing Bülent Keneş for "insulting the President".
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
PACE proposed a set of measures, in order to maximise the benefits of migration between China and Europe. It called on member States to sign bilateral agreements with China on social security, education and other integration-related issues.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
The Assembly today welcomed the initiative of the Committee of Ministers in drawing up a Council of Europe Convention on an Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other Sports Events.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
Adopting unanimously a report prepared by Sahiba Gafarova, the Standing Committee stressed that all violence against women is a form of discrimination and a gross violation of human rights.
26/11/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a draft resolution PACE's Social Affairs Committee says the lack of regular maintenance work on the Sarsang reservoir, located in an area of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia, “poses a danger to the whole border region”.
26/11/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pierre-Yves Le Borgn, rapporteur on implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, has responded to recent criticisms of the Court made by French former European Affairs Minister Pierre Lellouche.
25/11/2015 | President
“I condemn yesterday’s terrorist bombing in Tunis", said Anne Brasseur. "We stand with the Tunisian authorities in combating the terrorists. If we remain united in defending our values, they will not succeed.”
24/11/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“We, as parliamentarians, must raise awareness of the counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes, and their negative impact on public health,” warns Valeriu Ghiletchi, Chair of PACE's Social Affairs Committee.
24/11/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have expressed their dismay at a death sentence handed down in Belarus last week, and urged the authorities not to carry it out.