30/09/2014 | Session
“I call on the authorities of Ukraine and Russia to help the families of missing persons in Ukraine to find them,” says PACE rapporteur Jim Sheridan.
30/09/2014 | Session
PACE has given its strong backing to a proposal put forward by youth activists to declare 22 July – the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Oslo and at Utøya – as a “European Day for Victims of Hate Crime”.
30/09/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE Legal Affairs Committee today deplored the recent arrests and convictions of human rights defenders and NGO leaders in Azerbaijan and called on the authorities to release them and to refrain from unfairly prosecuting others.
30/09/2014 | Session
Three years after the start of the Arab Spring, the Assembly has drawn a mixed picture about the situation of women in the southern Mediterranean countries and advises measures to improve women’s status.
30/09/2014 | Session
At the opening of the Living Library “No hate, no extremism” PACE President Anne Brasseur and the Speaker of the Norwegian parliament OlemicThommessen called on all parliaments in Europe to support the initiative to make 22 July a “European Day for the Victims of Hate Crime”. Today, the...
30/09/2014 | Session
The Assembly called for measures to improve the quality of vocational training, boost its attractiveness and bring it into line with the needs of the labour market. It said that vocational education face “many challenges"
29/09/2014 | Session
Adopting the agenda at the opening of its Autumn session, the Assembly decided to hold debates on “The crisis in Ukraine”, and an urgent debate on “Threats against humanity posed by the terrorist group known as “IS”".
29/09/2014 | Session
"Human rights must be above political agendas and national specificities," Parliamentary Assembly President Anne Brasseur said in her opening speech of the autumn session today in Strasbourg.
29/09/2014 | Session
The Assembly today elected, at the opening of its Autumn 2014 Session, Ksenija Korenjak Kramar as a new Assembly Vice-President in respect of Slovenia. Twenty Vice-Presidents are elected annually.
29/09/2014 | Prizes
The second Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – has been awarded to Azerbaijani human rights defender Anar Mammadli.
29/09/2014 | Session
According to the Parliamentary Assembly, the presidential election in Turkey was “organised in a professional and efficient manner and for the most part election procedures were followed”.
29/09/2014 | Session
The Assembly held this afternoon a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda. Thirty-six parliamentarians spoke.