05/12/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The suspension of the UN Food Programme to Syrian refugees is a genuine disaster, as it will seriously threaten their health and safety and could even cause fresh tensions in the host countries,” said Jean-Marie Bockel.
05/12/2014 | President
“Khadija Ismayilova is one the long-standing partners of the Council of Europe. I was shocked by the information she provided to me regarding pressure exercised against her", PACE President declared.
05/12/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Council of Europe member States should increase the availability of student funding with a view to increasing student mobility, the committee concluded, adopting a report by Christian Barilaro.
04/12/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur will make an official visit to Paris on 9 and 10 December 2014, during which, she is due to meet Claude Bartolone, Speaker of the National Assembly, and Gerard Larcher, Speaker of the Senate.
04/12/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Opening a Conference on media freedom and the security of journalists in Paris today, Anne Brasseur has called for the end to crimes against journalists who pay with their lives their safety to guarantee us access to information.
04/12/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Budgetary cuts should not be human rights and equality blind, the committee said, adopting a report prepared by Nikolaj Villumsen. Human rights and equality impact assessments are essential in order to take informed decisions.
04/12/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Numerous acts of hostility and violence have been recorded in the recent years against Christians and their places of worship. However, these acts are overlooked by national authorities, the committee has warned.
03/12/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“People with disabilities must no longer be invisible to the rest of society or treated like second-class citizens. That has to change,” said Carmen Quintanilla, as her report was adopted today.
02/12/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The rights to organise, to bargain collectively and to strike are fundamental rights that have come under threat in many Council of Europe member States in the context of the economic crisis, the committee warned today.
02/12/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Adopting unanimously the proposals by the rapporteur Silvia Bonet (Andorra, SOC), the committee called on the Council of Europe member States to address the risk factors for misdiagnosis of ADHD.
02/12/2014 | Secretary General of the Assembly
PACE Secretary General Wojciech Sawicki met in Brussels with his counterparts from the NATO and OSCE parliamentary assemblies, David Hobbs and Spencer Oliver, to discuss co-operation between the three bodies.
01/12/2014 | Monitoring
Michael Aastrup Jensen and Boriss Cilevics, PACE co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will undertake a fact-finding visit to the country from 3 to 5 December.