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A twin strategy to tackle doping: warning athletes and cutting off the supply of drugs

04/06/2015 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

Officials from the world of sport met in Paris to brief parliamentarians on the latest moves to crack down on doping and warn young athletes about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs.

Partnership with the Parliament of Morocco: an overall positive assessment

04/06/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy

After four years of implementation of the partnership for democracy between the Parliament of Morocco and PACE, the committee has today issued an “overall positive assessment” of its results.

‘United, we can fight corruption’, says Anne Brasseur

04/06/2015 | President

“United, we can fight corruption,” said Anne Brasseur, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), speaking today at the end of a working visit to Rome, Italy.

Working visit by PACE President to Italy

03/06/2015 | President

Anne Brasseur will be visiting Rome tomorrow, where she will meet Sergio Mattarella, President of the Republic, and Laura Boldrini, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.

Rapporteur 'deeply disappointed' by Moscow Gay Pride refusal

03/06/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

“Gay Pride rallies remind us that discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity has no place in democratic societies,” said Jonas Gunnarsson, General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBT people.

Solving the problem of missing persons during the conflict in Ukraine through joint efforts of all sides

03/06/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation

The committee, meeting in Bishkek, is concerned by the growing number of cases of missing persons reported in the areas of military action in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as well as in Crimea.

Anne Brasseur condemns attack on Human Rights Prize winner

03/06/2015 | President

Anne Brasseur has strongly condemned a vicious attack on the Grozny offices of the Committee against Torture, a Russian NGO which was awarded the Assembly’s inaugural Human Rights Prize in 2011.

Fighting corruption: towards a code of conduct for parliamentarians

02/06/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy

On 4 June the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Committee on Political Affairs will hold a seminar in Rome to discuss national and international experience in codes of conduct for parliamentarians.

Parliamentary conference: implementation of the right to free elections in Eastern Partnership countries

02/06/2015 | Parliamentary support

A conference on the “Implementation of the right to free elections in Eastern Partnership countries”, to be held in Paris on 4-5 June, will address the challenge of applying election legislation and Council of Europe standards.

Parliamentary conference: implementation of the right to free elections in Eastern Partnership countries

02/06/2015 | Election observation

A conference on the “Implementation of the right to free elections in Eastern Partnership countries”, to be held in Paris on 4-5 June, will address the challenge of applying election legislation and Council of Europe standards.

Committee proposes not to annul Russian credentials ‘at this time’

01/06/2015 | Monitoring

The Monitoring Committee deeply regrets Russia's "manifest lack of progress" in meeting Assembly demands over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea, but urges re-established dialogue.

Preventing and combating racism, xenophobia and intolerance should be a priority for member States

01/06/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly has condemned the alarming rise in racism, xenophobia and intolerance in Europe, at its meeting in Paris.