24/04/2015 | Session
Adopting a resolution, the Assembly said that "Council of Europe member States need to remove existing obstacles and ensure that their citizens have equal access to justice, irrespective of their wealth or status".
24/04/2015 | President
"In view of Romanian former President Iliescu’s admission of a 'CIA facility' in his country, it is now up to the Romanian authorities to conduct a serious investigation into the facts," said PACE President Anne Brasseur.
24/04/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski have expressed their deep disappointment at the sentence of seven-and-a-half years in prison handed to the lawyer and human rights defender Intigam Aliyev.
24/04/2015 | Session
PACE has congratulated the European Court of Human Rights on reducing its backlog of cases and becoming even more efficient, but urged states to match this progress by “reinforcing the principle of subsidiarity”.
23/04/2015 | Monitoring
A sub-committee of the existing Monitoring Committee is to be created to deal with “conflicts between Council of Europe member states”, where active armed conflict is at an end, but no peace treaty has been signed.
23/04/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination appointed three new General Rapporteurs during its meeting on 21 April 2015 in Strasbourg: Sahiba Gafarova, Jonas Gunnarsson and Milena Santerini.
23/04/2015 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is asking for changes to a new legal treaty aimed at curbing so-called “foreign fighters” in order to strengthen human rights safeguards.
23/04/2015 | Session
The Assembly today called on the member States of the EU to adopt a comprehensive approach to deal with mixed migratory flows across the Mediterranean, with a view “to carrying out an urgent and concerted action”.
23/04/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee condemns in strongly the conviction of Intigam Aliyev, a famous Azerbaijani human rights lawyer, who was sentenced to seven years and six months of imprisonment by the Baku Grave Crimes Court.
23/04/2015 | Session
Last year thousands of people died unnecessarily, in the Mediterranean Sea and in eastern Ukraine. This, in a Europe where the rule of law prevails, said Nils Muižnieks addressing PACE.
23/04/2015 | Session
Council of Europe member States should “scrupulously respect” the limits placed on targeted killings under international law when carrying out drone strikes, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly said today.
23/04/2015 | Session
PACE has decided to end post-monitoring dialogue with Monaco in the light of recent progress made by the Principality to honour the commitments it entered into on joining the Council of Europe in 2004.