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
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.
23/04/2015 | President
On the occasion of the North-South Centre’s 25th anniversary, PACE President Anne Brasseur urged all member States which are not already part to the Council of Europe North-South Centre to consider joining it.
23/04/2015 | Session
The decision to assign the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was so “radically flawed” by illegal payments that FIFA should hold a new vote under cleaned-up procedures, according to PACE.
22/04/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
What is the link between corruption and democracy? How can corruption undermine the pillars of the rule of law? These were the questions posed by Michele Nicoletti as he opened a hearing on "Corrupt elites as a threat to democracy".
22/04/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE rapporteur Tineke Strik called on European states and organisations to make Libya a priority as they develop new policy and operational responses to the growing migration crisis in the Mediterranean.
22/04/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Including children’s rights in national constitutions could strengthen national laws and policies to protect children in the view of PACE’s Committee on Social Affairs.