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President urges parliamentarians to speak out on ‘dangers’ facing the Strasbourg Court

11/09/2014 | President

Assembly President Anne Brasseur has urged parliamentarians to speak out on the dangers facing the European Court of Human Rights, such as the non-implementation of a few judgments.

Request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of France: visit by co-rapporteurs to Paris

10/09/2014 | Monitoring

Valeriu Ghiletchi and Stefan Schennach will conduct a fact-finding visit to Paris on 11 September, as part of the preparation of an opinion regarding the request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of France.

Equality and the crisis: rapporteur makes visit to Greece

10/09/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

Nikolaj Villumsen will make a fact-finding visit to Athens in the context of the preparation of his report on “Equality and the crisis”. He will meet, in particular, the Vice-President of the Hellenic Parliament and the Deputy Minister of Health.

PACE President and Norwegian Speaker back plan for a European Day for the Victims of Hate Crime

10/09/2014 | President

PACE President Anne Brasseur and Olemic Thommessen, President of the Storting, fully support the proposal for a European Day for the Victims of Hate Crime on 22 July, date of the Utoya attacks

Uncertainty over the outlook for growth remains in the EBRD activity zone

09/09/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy

Discussing the report by Cheryl Gillan on the activities of the EBRD in 2013-2014, the committee observed that this period had been marked by the beginning of recovery from the financial crisis.

States must ban the detention of migrant children

09/09/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation

Council of Europe member states should introduce and enforce laws banning the detention of children for immigration reasons, according to a report by PACE's Migration Committee.

The status of women in the Southern Mediterranean countries: mixed results

09/09/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

Three years after the start of the Arab Spring, the Equality Committee, meeting in Paris, has drawn mixed conclusions about the situation of women in the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean.

Focusing on the perpetrators to prevent violence against women

09/09/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

Preventive intervention and treatment programmes for perpetrators of domestic violence and for sex offenders are having a rather positive impact on victim safety and most of those who participate in these programmes would not reoffend.

President pays tribute to PACE member Jim Dobbin

08/09/2014 | President

PACE President Anne Brasseur has paid tribute to Jim Dobbin, a member of the British delegation to PACE, who passed away suddenly while on a visit to Poland as part of an Assembly delegation.

Autumn session: the Ukraine crisis, countering neo-Nazism, human rights prize

08/09/2014 | Session

A current affairs debate on the crisis in Ukraine, a report on countering neo-Nazism, and the award of the second Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize will be among highlights of PACE’s autumn session in Strasbourg.

PACE President makes official visit to Norway

05/09/2014 | President

Anne Brasseur, will make an official visit to Norway on 10-12 September. She will meet in Oslo the President of the Storting and the Vice-President of the Storting and Chair of the Norwegian delegation to PACE.

Call for a democratic consensus to oppose neo-Nazi ideology

05/09/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy

Neo-Nazis are not to be disregarded, or indeed turned into martyrs, the Political Affairs Committee members emphasised by unanimously adopting a report by Marietta Pourbaix-Lundin on "Counteraction to manifestations of neo-Nazism".