14/04/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Steve Cohen, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on Political Prisoners, and Azadeh Rojhan, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) General Rapporteur on Political Prisoners in Europe, today made the following statement: “We strongly condemn the continued detention of three...
11/04/2025 | Session
Urgent debates on “The situation in Georgia and follow up to Resolution 2585 (2025) ’Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia’”; on “The arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul and the state of democracy and human rights in Türkiye...
11/04/2025 | Election observation
A five-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE), will make a pre-electoral visit to Poland on 14-15 April to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the presidential election on 18 May. In Warsaw, the...
10/04/2025 | Session
PACE has welcomed the draft Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law, which is set to become “the first international legally binding instrument to address environmental crime”, but expressed concern that it still lacks ambition and scope in several...
10/04/2025 | Session
Noting that the situation in Georgia “has continued to deteriorate” since its last assessment in January, with no sign of an inclusive political process or new elections, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has warned of a deepening political schism in the country and made...
10/04/2025 | Session
“We are appalled by the attacks on and restrictions imposed on humanitarian actors in the Gaza Strip, when their sole objective is to provide humanitarian and neutral assistance,” said Paul Galles (Luxembourg, EPP/CD), at the opening of a current affairs debate held today in Strasbourg in plenary...
10/04/2025 | Session
It is “more important than ever” for Europe to strengthen its ties with regions that share its values and, in that sense, the Latin American region “should be considered as a natural ally”, the Parliamentary Assembly said today. According to parliamentarians, while the existing partnerships with...
10/04/2025 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) calls for closer cooperation between the Council of Europe and the European Political Community (EPC), stressing the importance of maintaining the Council of Europe’s role as a cornerstone of pan-European dialogue and multilateralism...
10/04/2025 | Session
PACE has set out the final few steps that could lead – after more than 40 years of discussions – to the accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights. Approving a resolution based on a report by Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC), the Assembly said “what appears to be the last...
09/04/2025 | Session
Recalling the “unequivocal obligation” to implement judgments of the Strasbourg Court in a “timely and effective manner”, the Assembly today expressed concern at the failure of some States Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights to remedy the underlying causes of human rights...
09/04/2025 | Session
“More than eleven years after its start, the illegal, unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine continues to rage, causing endless damage and suffering to Ukraine and its people,” today reaffirmed PACE following an urgent debate. The Assembly warned...
09/04/2025 | Women@PACE
At the last Women@PACE group meeting during the PACE spring plenary session, Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg joined parliamentarians, ambassadors and experts for an exchange of views on structural gender-based violence, placing survivors’ voices and lived experiences at the...