21/08/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
PACE rapporteur Agustín Conde will be visiting Belgrade on 24-25 August, in the context of the preparation of his report on the situation in Kosovo and the role of the Council of Europe.
20/08/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Milica Marković will visit different towns in Azerbaijan from 24 to 27 August in the context of the preparation of her report on “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water”.
20/08/2015 | Prizes
The shortlist for the 2015 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize - three individuals or organisations judged to have undertaken “outstanding” civil society action in defence of human rights - is to be announced on 25 August in Prague.
20/08/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur today expressed solidarity with the authorities of "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" over its declaration of a state of emergency, while also cautioning the government.
13/08/2015 | President
“I am shocked and outraged by the sentencing of Leyla and Arif Yunus for eight-and-a-half and seven years of imprisonment, respectively,” said PACE President Anne Brasseur.
12/08/2015 | President
In a telephone conversation today, Anne Brasseur and Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu condemned terrorism and violent extremism and stressed the need to continue combating it. They both emphasised the urgent need to ease tensions.
12/08/2015 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Sevinj Fataliyeva, PACE's general rapporteur on children, has urged action from European parliaments and governments following revelations that a blackmail gang has filmed some 270 children being sexually abused in Pakistan.
10/08/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur has strongly condemned this morning’s attacks in Turkey, in Sirnak province and in Istanbul. “Terrorism undermines the very foundations of democratic societies and can never be justified,” she said.
06/08/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“I welcome the decisions taken by the Kosovo* Assembly to pave the way for the creation of Specialist Chambers as a positive response to the Assembly’s resolution on illicit trafficking in human organs,” said Agustín Conde.
30/07/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"It's time to turn the spotlight on those hidden recesses where trafficking in human beings flourishes," said Gülsün Bilgehan, Chair of Equality Committee, speaking on the World Day against Trafficking.
29/07/2015 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE media freedom rapporteur Gvozden Flego, speaking before a new verdict on two Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt, has called on the authorities to respect media freedom and ensure fair trials.
24/07/2015 | President
"I am deeply saddened by yet another fatal accident in the Mediterranean," said PACE President Anne Brasseur, reacting to news that up to 40 more African migrants may have perished as their boat sank.