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.
24/07/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I share the shock caused by the recent cowardly and cruel attacks in Tunisia. However, I must strongly condemn any legislative initiative that makes provision for the death penalty", Marietta Karamanli declared.
22/07/2015 | President
"We need this European day to show solidarity with all those who have been victims of hate crime, to enable people to recognise these human rights violations and to promote a wide and inclusive effort to combat hate," said Anne Brasseur.
17/07/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur travels to Oslo to participate in commemoration ceremonies for the victims of the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøya. She will hold bilateral meetings with the Prime Minister and Speaker of Parliament.
16/07/2015 | President
I am very concerned about Tuesday’s judgment of Russia's Constitutional Court, which states that the Strasbourg Court’s judgments should not be followed ‘to the letter’ if they violate Russian law, said Anne Brasseur.
16/07/2015 | President
“I have received extremely worrying information about unilateral changes to the Administrative Border Line (ABL) of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia," said PACE President Anne Brasseur.