30/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“The botched execution of Clayton Lockett in dreadful torment, on 29 April in Oklahoma, again demonstrates the cruelty and inhumanity of this penalty and the urgency of an overall moratorium,” said Ms Karamanli.
28/04/2014 | Election observation
Fundamental freedoms were respected in the 27 April elections, but shortcomings identified in the first round of the presidential election two weeks earlier, either persisted or were more pronounced.
28/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“I note that Turkey is one of the countries with the highest number of non-executed ECHR judgments and I hope that major structural problems will soon be overcome,” said Mr de Vries.
25/04/2014 | Election observation
A PACE six-member delegation, led by Andreas Gross, will carry out a pre-electoral visit to Kyiv on 29-30 April, ahead of the early presidential election in Ukraine on 25 May, to assess the electoral framework and campaign.
25/04/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur called on all sides to urgently de-escalate the situation and return to what was agreed in Geneva, particularly as regards the disarmament of illegal armed groups.
24/04/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
José Mendes Bota welcomed the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by Andorra and Denmark which respectively became the 10th and 11th member states of the Council of Europe to ratify this legal instrument.
23/04/2014 | Election observation
A PACE delegation led by Stefan Schennach will observe the conduct of the presidential election (2nd round) and the early parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE-PA and the ODIHR.
23/04/2014 | President
“The Assembly has on numerous occasions expressed its total and unconditional condemnation of the death penalty,” said Anne Brasseur in reaction to the execution in Belarus of Pavel Sialiun, aged 23.
18/04/2014 | President
“The agreement reached yesterday in Geneva between the United States, Russia, the EU and Ukraine is a positive step after the recent deterioration of the situation," said Anne Brasseur.
17/04/2014 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee made public an information note by Robert Walter, rapporteur on the post-monitoring dialogue with “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", on his fact-finding visit to Skopje.
17/04/2014 | Monitoring
On their return from Podgorica and Budva, Kimmo Sasi and Terry Leyden, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Montenegro, stressed that effective implementation of anti-corruption laws is essential to secure the rule of law.
15/04/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Two key PACE rapporteurs appealed to their fellow Iraqi parliamentarians not to vote a bill called the “Jaafari law”, which would legalise forced and child marriage and marital rape.