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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
05/09/2014 | Monitoring
Adopting a report by Stefan Schennach, the committee proposed to introduce a periodic overview of the 33 member states, not subject to a monitoring or post-monitoring procedure on the basis of an issue-based cross-country monitoring.
05/09/2014 | President
At the end of her three-day official visit to Romania, Anne Brasseur welcomed the authorities' firm commitment to the European project.
05/09/2014 | Monitoring
Meeting in Paris, the committee held in-depth discussions on the latest developments in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and made public reports on the fact-finding visits.