13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Europe is lagging behind in its efforts to resettle refugees – with only 20 Council of Europe member states resettling only 5,500 people in 2013 – and should do a great deal more, according to the committee.
13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Many Council of Europe member states grant refugees the right to work, seeing it as beneficial to host societies, but a gap remains between the legal right and its practical application, according to the committee.
13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee called for the establishment of a transition status for unaccompanied migrant children reaching the age of majority, and for them to continue to be granted, during the transition phase, the most elementary rights.
13/03/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Nikolaj Villumsen is to make a fact-finding visit to Lisbon on 17-18 March, as part of the preparation of his report on equality and the crisis. He is due to meet in particular, the Minister of Solidarity, Employment and Social Security.
13/03/2014 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The parliamentarians from Andorra had the highest participation rates in the plenary debates of the PACE in 2013, ahead of the members from Switzerland and Luxembourg.
13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Following the adoption of a Resolution on “Unaccompanied migrant children", the Committee on Migration hosted a workshop to launch a joint field research by UNHCR and the Council of Europe Youth Department.
12/03/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur met with UN Secretary General to discuss the crisis developing between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea. “We spoke about the important roles of the UN and the Council of Europe in keeping avenues of dialogue".
12/03/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“The rise of neo-Nazi movements requires a co-ordinated response on a European level,” said Theodora Bakoyannis, Chairperson of the Committee, concluding a hearing on counteracting manifestations of neo-Nazism.
12/03/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The committee has today given the go-ahead for granting partner for democracy status to the Kyrgyz Parliament. PACE is to take a decision on this matter on 8 April this year, at its plenary session in Strasbourg.
12/03/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Robert Biedroń has urged the Lithuanian Parliament to reject a change in the law which could impose administrative fines on those demonstrating publicly in support of LGBT rights.
12/03/2014 | Parliamentary support
A seminar on the “Role of national parliaments in the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human rights” was held in Warsaw on 13 February 2014 at the invitation of the Sejm and Senate of the Polish Parliament, with the cooperation of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human...
12/03/2014 | Election observation
The delegation welcomed the fact that the Electoral Code has been improved since the last election. However, it underlined the importance of implementing all its provisions in a good faith.