28/08/2025 | Children of Ukraine
“On the night of 28 August, Russia once again targeted Ukraine with missiles and drones. The attack struck residential areas across Kyiv, leaving at least eighteen people dead and injuring more than forty. Among the victims were four children – a two-year-old girl, a fourteen-year-old boy, and...
27/08/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“Following the firing of shots by a Libyan patrol boat at SOS Méditerranée's Ocean Viking on 24 August 2025, I am very concerned about safety at sea, both for migrants in distress crossing European waters and for coast guards, navies, NGOs, and volunteers who risk their lives to rescue them...
26/08/2025 | Prizes
The selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which rewards outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights in Europe and beyond, has today announced the shortlist for the 2025 award. Meeting in Prague, the panel – made up of independent figures from the world of human...
21/08/2025 | Prizes
The Selection Panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize will meet on Tuesday 26 August in Prague to determine a shortlist of three nominees from among the candidatures received. This shortlist – three individuals or organisations judged to have undertaken outstanding action in defence of human...
21/08/2025 | Monitoring
The rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Serbia, Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), has made the following statement today concerning the escalation of violence in Serbia: “I am deeply alarmed by the recent surge in violence across Serbia...
12/08/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“I am appalled by the killings of five Al Jazeera journalists, including prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif, in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital last Sunday,” said Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE...
07/08/2025 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Cudic (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have strongly condemned the sentencing of Mzia Amaghlobeli to two years' imprisonment. " This sentence is disproportionate, clearly politically motivated, and an example...
05/08/2025 | President
Speaking at Birkenau, the PACE President, Theodoros Rousopoulos, underlined the Assembly’s strong commitment to remembrance, calling for truth, no matter how painful. “We must not cover the truth — not in images, not in words, not in history,” he said. “Because a masked past will soon fade out...
01/08/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Georgios Stamatis (Greece, EPP/CD), PACE General Rapporteur on Roma and Travellers, made the following statement on the eve of the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Roma and Sinti: “On 2 August we honour the memory of the 4300 Roma and Sinti men, women and children murdered in Auschwitz...
31/07/2025 | President
Warning that “the serious politician is losing ground to the populist”, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has urged politicians to return to the values of trust in order to retain public support during an address to Speakers of Parliament from around the world. In a speech yesterday to the...
31/07/2025 | Monitoring
Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE) and Saara-Sofia Sirén (Finland, EPP/CD), the PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Ukraine, have welcomed the adoption of a law to restore the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies. "The swift drafting and adoption of this law show that the presidential...
28/07/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
PACE's rapporteur on the situation in the Middle East, Dora Bakoyannis (Greece, EPP/CD), made the following statement today: “The encouraging news that some humanitarian aid is reaching Gaza is overshadowed by the grim reality of what Gaza has become: a landscape of death and devastation. 661...