21/04/2015 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
Adopting the report prepared by Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC), the Committee on Rules of Procedure stated its belief that “the representation of the Turkish parliament in the Assembly is clearly too low”.
21/04/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Belarus has shown signs of opening-up, which I hope will be followed by concrete steps that could lead to improve the human rights situation and the normalisation of relations with the Council of Europe, said M. Rigoni.
20/04/2015 | Session
Adopting its final agenda at the opening of the 2015 Spring session, the Assembly decided to hold an urgent debate on “The human tragedy in the Mediterranean: Immediate Action Needed”, on Thursday 23 April.
20/04/2015 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today elected, at the opening of its Spring 2015 Session, two new Vice-Presidents: Dimitris Vitsas (Greece, UEL) and Mladen Bosić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, NR).
20/04/2015 | President
Human rights are universal. Refugees must be able to live in dignity and in decent conditions! Our Assembly is duty bound to launch a discussion on the migration issue from a human rights perspective.
20/04/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
We need to put an end to the detention of migrant children, which is a terrible situation, as I witnessed during a visit last year to a place of detention, said Anne Brasseur, at a ceremony to launch a Parliamentary Campaign.
20/04/2015 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held on Monday afternoon a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda. Twenty eight parliamentarians took the floor.
19/04/2015 | Session
"Hundreds of people are reported to have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean, south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. I am deeply shocked by this awful tragedy", PACE President Anne Brasseur said.
19/04/2015 | President
“Hundreds of people are reported to have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean, south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. I am deeply shocked by this awful tragedy", PACE President Anne Brasseur said.
17/04/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski have expressed their concern at the sentence passed on Rasul Jafarov. "Such a long sentence against a human rights defender could be perceived as disproportionate,” they said.
17/04/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE general rapporteur, Marietta Karamanli, has welcomed the very clear vote in the Nebraska Legislature in favour of replacing capital punishment with life imprisonment for first-degree murder.
16/04/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
<p>PACE will launch the Parliamentary Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children during a ceremony on 20 April. This campaign aims to encourage states to adopt alternatives to detention.</p>