15/04/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
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.
14/04/2014 | Election observation
Fundamental freedoms were respected and candidates were able to campaign freely, although biased and unbalanced media coverage and a blurring of state and party activities created an unbalanced playing field.
11/04/2014 | Session
PACE has strongly condemned instances of outright violation of “interim measures” requested by the European Court of Human Rights – such as halting an individual’s extradition or deportation, for example.
11/04/2014 | Session
The Assembly has called on member States to make ending child poverty a political priority, and to maintain an adequate level of budgetary resources for social services for families.
11/04/2014 | Session
Approving a resolution based on a report by Roel Deseyn (Belgium, EPP/CD), the Assembly discussed a series of steps for ensuring “decent work for all” in Europe.
11/04/2014 | Monitoring
Kimmo Sasi and Terry Leyden will make a fact-finding visit to Montenegro discuss implementation of the Assembly’s latest resolution and to assess the latest political and legal developments in the country.
11/04/2014 | Session
A gap remains between the legal right of refugees to take up employment and their successful integration into host societies’ labour markets, according to PACE.
10/04/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In unanimously adopting the report by Valeriu Ghiletchi, the committee calls on the Committee of Ministers to extend the ONE in FIVE Campaign for a further year, until November 2015, in order to reap the maximum benefits.
10/04/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Two committees have expressed their deep concern over the death sentences that were handed down in Egypt against more than five hundred supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.
10/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two committees have expressed their deep concern over the death sentences that were handed down in Egypt against more than five hundred supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.
10/04/2014 | Session
PACE has decided to suspend the voting rights of the Russian delegation, as well as its right to be represented in the Assembly’s leading bodies, and its right to participate in election observation missions.
10/04/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy once again draws the attention of the international community to the situation of Iranian refugees in Camp Liberty (Iraq).