04/04/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“On the occasion of World Health Day, we call for adequate access to healthcare for all migrants in Europe, including refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. The right to health is a fundamental human right...”
04/04/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A joint parliamentary hearing on the need to eradicate statelessness in Europe, with a particular focus on statelessness among children, is to take place on 9 April on the margins of PACE’s spring session.
04/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A joint parliamentary hearing on the need to eradicate statelessness in Europe, with a particular focus on statelessness among children, is to take place on 9 April on the margins of PACE’s spring session.
28/03/2014 | President
“Just prior to key local elections, the total blocking of access to YouTube is a further worrying development regarding freedom of expression and is contrary to the case-law of the ECHR,” said Anne Brasseur.
28/03/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has expressed her indignation over the increased number of executions in the world, revealed in an Amnesty International report published on 27 March 2014.
28/03/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“There is a contradiction between applying for closer relations with the Council of Europe and at the same time preparing legislation on the prohibition of so-called homosexual propaganda,” according to two rapporteurs.
27/03/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“In times of tight budgetary constraint, our primary aim should be to uphold and extend basic social and health services to children,” said Stella Kyriakides, speaking in Dubrovnik at the conference on “Growing with Children’s Rights”.
26/03/2014 | President
“Our two assemblies of elected representatives have succeeded in forging solid bonds of friendship over the years and establishing an exemplary form of co-operation,” said Anne Brasseur to the members of the Congress.
25/03/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur, speaking at the end of a visit to Kyiv, Donetsk and Lviv by a delegation of leading members from the Assembly, has offered the Council of Europe’s help in assisting Ukraine to overcome the great challenges it faces.
21/03/2014 | President
A delegation of the leading members of the PACE, headed by its President Anne Brasseur, is to visit Kyiv, Donetsk and Lviv during a three-day visit to Ukraine from 22-24 March.
21/03/2014 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan expressed their serious concern at the announcement by the court of a seven-year jail sentence, on charges of inciting the Ismaili protests, on two opposition politicians.
21/03/2014 | Monitoring
PACE rapporteur on the post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, reacted to the blocking of twitter accounts in the country. "This development, if confirmed, would be a serious violation of the freedom of expression".