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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.