29/09/2015 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of the PACE welcomes the progress of constitutional reform in Armenia, which has been conducted in close co-operation with the Venice Commission.
29/09/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee has welcomed the initiative of Thorbjørn Jagland to request information from the Contracting Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights on “past or ongoing investigations” concerning illegal CIA detentions and renditions.
29/09/2015 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly has spelled out a series of measures to encourage the pharmaceutical industry to respond more effectively to public health needs, urging stricter drug approval policies.
29/09/2015 | Session
The refugee crisis requires comprehensive solutions. Only concerted comprehensive action with a range of measures geared to the countries of origin, transit and destination will be successful, said Pedro Agramunt.
29/09/2015 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Alena Poláčková as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Slovak Republic for a term of office of nine years.
29/09/2015 | Secretary General of the Assembly
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) yesterday re-elected Wojciech Sawicki to the post of Secretary General of the Assembly for a five-year term starting on 1 February 2016.
29/09/2015 | Session
The EU’s Dublin system, which determines which country is responsible for treating asylum applications, is ineffective and should be reformed to ensure “equitable burden sharing” among member States, according to PACE.
28/09/2015 | Session
The Assembly will award today the 2015 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. PACE President met this morning the three candidates: from left to right, Manizha Naderi, Anne Brasseur, Ludmilla Alexeeva and Alma Masic.
28/09/2015 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today elected, at the opening of its Autumn 2015 Session, Michael Aastrup Jensen as a new Vice-President of the Assembly Vice-President in respect of Denmark.
28/09/2015 | Session
Adopting its agenda today, PACE has decided to hold a current affairs debate tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday 29 September on “A comprehensive humanitarian and political response to the migration and refugee crisis in Europe”.
28/09/2015 | Prizes
The third Václav Havel Human Rights Prize has been awarded to veteran Russian human rights defender Ludmilla Alexeeva. The €60 000 prize was presented in Strasbourg, on the opening day of the Assembly's Plenary Session.
28/09/2015 | Session
Migration was the primary concern of parliamentarians during the debate on the progress report, which covers the activities and decisions of the Assembly’s subsidiary bodies since the last session.