25/08/2015 | Prizes
Russian human rights defender Ludmilla Alexeeva, the grassroots NGO "Women for Afghan Women" and the Balkan NGO "Youth Initiative for Human Rights" have been shortlisted for the 2015 Václav Havel Prize.
25/08/2015 | President
“The sentencing of Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko on charges of terrorism, respectively to 20 and 10 years in prison, appears to be manifestly excessive," says PACE President Anne Brasseur.
24/08/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Robert Biedron, former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, will present the Plaque of Honour to the town of Ternopil (Ukraine) during a ceremony on 28 August.
23/08/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur welcomed the release of six political prisoners by the Belarusian authorities but expressed her continuing concern about the political orientation of leaders.
21/08/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Daphné Dumery will be visiting the headquarters of Frontex, the EU’s border agency, in Warsaw on 28 August, in the context of her report on “The Mediterranean Sea: a front door to irregular migration”.
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.