19/05/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE rapporteur Irakli Chikovani will be visiting Rome on 20 May, in the context of the preparation of his report on the involvement of organised crime in migrants’ smuggling and exploitation.
18/05/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A first regional seminar on social rights in Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries will focus on the European Social Charter. They will discuss present problems, possible solutions and examples of good practice in this area.
18/05/2015 | Monitoring
Mailis Reps and Jean-Claude Mignon are visiting Ukraine to assess recent developments and the political environment, constitutional reform and reform of law enforcement structures, as well as the situation in the regions.
15/05/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"Young LGBT people must never be made to feel afraid to express their sexual orientation and gender identity", Jonas Gunnarsson said on the eve of the International Day against Homophobia.
15/05/2015 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly is to meet in Sarajevo on 22 May, ahead of Bosnia and Herzegovina's six-month chairmanship of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers.
15/05/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A delegation of four members of the Assembly's Committee on Migration, together with two Dutch senators, is to make a visit on 18 May to the Schipol Detention Centre, where irregular migrants are held.
13/05/2015 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Piotr Wach (Poland, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova by the Parliamentary Assembly are to visit the country from 13 to 16 May 2015.
12/05/2015 | Monitoring
“I deeply regret the deaths and injuries due to armed clashes that have occurred in the last few days in ‘the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’, on its border with Kosovo”, today said Robert Walter.
09/05/2015 | President
Since its accession to the Council of Europe in 1999, the Georgian people demonstrated on numerous occasions their commitment to our common European values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, said Anne Brasseur.
09/05/2015 | President
"Working together to consolidate democracy, tolerance and living together is the best tribute we can pay to the victims and heroes of the Second World War," PACE President said today at a ceremony to mark the end of WWII.
08/05/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski are deeply concerned by the sentencing of opposition leader Faraj Kerimli, to six and a half years of prison. They called on the authorities to develop an environment favourable to political pluralism.
08/05/2015 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu, PACE rapporteur on post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, took stock of the latest developments in the country, at the end of a fact-finding visit to Istanbul, Şanlıurfa and Ankara (30 April-4 May).