28/05/2014 | Monitoring
Michael Aastrup Jensen and Boriss Cilevičs, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, called on the Georgian authorities to conduct a full and transparent investigation into the attacks on leading United National Movement.
27/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Notwithstanding the various measures taken over the years to strengthen the independence of the Court, there still is room for improvement, PACE’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights said.
27/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee condemned the use of Article 12 of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons in the Safarov case "as a violation of the principles of good faith in international relations".
26/05/2014 | Election observation
A PACE delegation led by Andreas Gross will travel to Ukraine to observe the conduct of the early presidential election, alongside observers from the OSCE-PA, the European Parliament, the NATO-PA and the OSCE-ODIHR.
26/05/2014 | Election observation
“The extraordinary quality of yesterday’s election provides the new president of Ukraine with the legitimacy to establish immediately an inclusive dialogue with all citizens in the eastern regions...”, said Andreas Gross.
25/05/2014 | President
"The fact that this despicable act happened at a Jewish site makes me fear an anti-semitic act. We cannot allow anti-semitism to rise further in Europe," declared Anne Brasseur following the shooting at a Jewish museum in Belgium.
23/05/2014 | Standing Committee
The PACE believes that the early parliamentary elections were conducted on a sound legal basis and offered voters a genuine choice. The report by Pedro Agramunt states that fundamental freedoms were upheld.
23/05/2014 | Standing Committee
In line with the proposals made by Valeriu Ghiletchi, PACE made two recommendations to the Committee of Ministers: prolong the ONE in FIVE Campaign for one year and institute a European Day to fight sexual violence against children.
23/05/2014 | Standing Committee
At today's meeting in Baku, the Standing Committee proposed that member States establish a transition category, between the ages of 18 and 25, for unaccompanied migrant children who reach the age of majority.
23/05/2014 | Standing Committee
PACE has given its green light to a new Council of Europe treaty which will result in new laws to crack down on “match-fixing”, illegal betting and other forms of corruption in sport, calling for it to enter into force swiftly.
23/05/2014 | Standing Committee
The Assembly called on national parliaments national human rights institutions to actively engage in concrete co-operation on equality and non-discrimination issues in order to improve human rights protection for all.
23/05/2014 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu, rapporteur for “post-monitoring dialogue” with Turkey, is to visit the country from 26-29 May to assess Turkey’s progress in implementing the outstanding matters listed in the last post-monitoring resolution.