23/11/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee has decided to postpone discussion of a draft report by Petra de Sutter on human rights and the ethical issues related to surrogacy, which was on the committee’s agenda at a meeting today.
23/11/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marieluise Beck, rapporteur on legal remedies to human rights violations on the Ukrainian territories outside the control of the authorities, has sounded the alarm on the humanitarian situation in the separatist-held regions of Ukraine.
20/11/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In Paris on 24 November the committee is organising a parliamentary conference on the MEDICRIME Convention, the treaty on the counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes.
20/11/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The town of Cervia (Italy) will receive the Plaque of Honour of the Parliamentary Assembly on Thursday, 26 November 2015. Laura Puppato, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly will present this distinction.
20/11/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur, speaking during the World Forum for Democracy, has condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the wave of terrorist attacks by IS against France, Lebanon and Russia, as well as other states earlier this year.
20/11/2015 | Monitoring
At the end of a fact-finding visit to Podgorica, Terry Leyden and Ionut Marian Stroe, co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue with Montenegro, have welcomed the continuing positive role played by the country in stabilising the region.
19/11/2015 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly will meet in Sofia on Friday 27 November, in the context of the Bulgarian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers (November 2015-May 2016).
19/11/2015 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
A seminar, organised in co-operation with the PACE Parliamentary Project Support Division, will take place on 10-11 December 2015 on the theme: “Funding of political parties and electoral campaigns: legislation and control mechanisms”.
19/11/2015 | Parliamentary support
A seminar, organised in co-operation with the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure, will take place on 10-11 December 2015 on the theme: “Funding of political parties and electoral campaigns: legislation and control mechanisms”.
18/11/2015 | President
The goal of this Day is to raise awareness about sexual abuse and encourage an open dialogue in order to help prevent abuse, said PACE President Anne Brasseur today.
18/11/2015 | President
The issue of mass surveillance of citizens has received much attention, especially after the revelations made by Edward Snowden, with a growing tension between the concern for safety and the protection of freedoms, said Anne Brasseur.
17/11/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The newly established European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse will be presented at a press conference at 11 am on Wednesday 18 November in Nicosia.