02/06/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Hate speech against persons on the basis of race, religion, gender, disability, political views or sexual orientation, is proliferating quickly,the committee warned and decided to launch a 'No Hate Parliamentary Alliance'.
02/06/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Discrimination on the grounds of gender identity is widespread in Council of Europe member states and transgender people face many forms of discrimination, similar to those experienced by LGB people.
30/05/2014 | Monitoring
According to Josette Durrieu, rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, with three months to go before the presidential elections, the situation in Turkey is once again prompting questions.
30/05/2014 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu, rapporteur on “post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey”, has welcomed the Constitutional Court decision requiring the ban on YouTube to be lifted, a demand that had also been made by PACE.
28/05/2014 | Monitoring
Jonathan Evans and Grigore Petrenco, co-rapporteurs for the PACE monitoring of obligations and commitments by Albania, will make a fact-finding visit to that country on 2 and 3 June 2014.
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.