06/06/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has joined the appeals for calm following yesterday's explosions at a rally of the HDP party in Diyarbakir.
05/06/2015 | Elections
A 29-member delegation led by Tiny Kox is in Turkey from 5 to 8 June to observe the conduct of the parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE-PA and the OSCE-ODIHR.
05/06/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Two years after concerns were raised about new laws in Hungary, the committee has welcomed the measures taken by the authorities and urged continued dialogue with the Council of Europe.
05/06/2015 | Monitoring
At the end of his fact-finding visit to Sofia (2-5 June), Frano Matušic, rapporteur on post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, welcomed the improved political climate after the October 2014 general elections.
05/06/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Participants at a discussion about the current political challenges and opportunities in the Mediterranean Region, held in Rome today, stressed the need for a Libyan-led political process.
04/06/2015 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“Self-regulation by the media is a means of reducing influence by the State and other sectors of society over media content,” said Volodymyr Ariev when presenting his report on to the Committee.
04/06/2015 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Alarmed by the number and magnitude of criminal attacks perpetrated in cyberspace, the committee adopted a report on increasing co-operation against cyber terrorism and other large-scale attacks on computer systems.
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 | 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 | 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.