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.
15/05/2014 | President
Following the accident that took place in Soma, the Assembly President sent a letter of condolences to the President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey: “It is with profound sadness that I learned of the tragedy".
14/05/2014 | Standing Committee
PACE Standing Committee will meet in Baku in the context of the Azerbaijani Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers. After the opening of the meeting by PACE President, the Speaker of the Milli Mejlis will address participants.
13/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Despite the panoply of standards providing a well-established framework for modelling juvenile justice, there is a dissonance between the rhetoric of human rights discourse and the reality of juvenile justice interventions.
13/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Underlining the need to continue negotiations with a view to achieve a mutually acceptable political solution to the Western Sahara conflict, the committee called on all parties to show realism and a spirit of compromise.
13/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a draft resolution unanimously adopted in Nicosia, the committee called on the Development Bank to strengthen its ties with the Council of Europe. The CEB should further maximise the social added-value of its projects.
13/05/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur, speaking on behalf of the Assembly’s Presidential Committee following a meeting in Luxembourg, has appealed to all sides in Ukraine to put an immediate end to violence and intimidation.
13/05/2014 | Monitoring
PACE rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine deeply regret the holding of so-called referendums in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, despite calls from the international community, including Russia, not to do so.