23/05/2014 | President
By chairing the Committee of Ministers, member states should translate their commitment to values into action and champion the cause of human rights and democracy, Anne Brasseur said, addressing the Standing Committee.
23/05/2014 | Standing Committee
The policies of several European countries, which require obligatory HIV testing, or testing without the consent of migrants, raise serious human rights concerns,” said PACE adopting a resolution.
23/05/2014 | Standing Committee
"Azerbaijan will put in efforts in order to successfully continue the work carried out to reinforce the fundamental principles of the Council of Europe", the Speaker of the Milli Majlis said in Baku addressing PACE’s Standing Committee.
23/05/2014 | President
We must keep up our efforts to denounce the actions of the Nigerian group Boko Haram, which denies the basic principle of respect for human dignity. The threat to enslave more than 200 girls is 'unacceptable'.
22/05/2014 | Bureau
The PACE Bureau decided today in Baku that no more Assembly committee meetings will be held in Azerbaijan for two years, following the withdrawal of a visa for PACE Vice-President René Rouquet.
21/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has unreservedly condemned the execution in Gaza of two Palestinians accused of “collaboration” with Israel – one by hanging and the other by firing squad.
20/05/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur will hold high-level talks in Baku, on the margins of the meeting of the PACE Standing Committee to be held on 23 May. She is due to meet notably the President of the Republic and the Speaker of the Milli Mejlis.
16/05/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Freedom of expression is a pre-condition for dialogue and mutual understanding, and is instrumental to fighting homophobia and transphobia,” said Robert Biedroń, general rapporteur on the rights of LGBT people.
16/05/2014 | Monitoring
The Committee urges all political parties to work together to participate in an effective democratic parliament. "It is the duty of the newly elected parliament to address the serious electoral shortcomings", it said.
16/05/2014 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Joseph Debono Grech will be making a fact-finding visit to Azerbaijan on 19-21 May. Talks are scheduled with the President of the Republic, the Minister of Justice and the Prosecutor General.
15/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“Belarus’s efforts to move closer to the PACE will remain vain and fruitless as long as the death penalty is imposed on any Belarusian citizen,” two rapporteurs said, speaking following the execution of Hryhoriy Yuzepchuk.
15/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Belarus’s efforts to move closer to the PACE will remain vain and fruitless as long as the death penalty is imposed on any Belarusian citizen,” two rapporteurs said, speaking following the execution of Hryhoriy Yuzepchuk.