08/04/2014 | Election observation
A 13-member PACE delegation, led by Stefan Schennach, will travel to “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” to observe the conduct of the presidential election, alongside observers from the OSCE’s ODIHR.
08/04/2014 | Session
With 84% of trafficking victims in Europe, PACE has pinpointed legislation and policies on prostitution as indispensable anti-trafficking tools, given the obvious close link between trafficking in human beings and prostitution.
08/04/2014 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
“For once, we should be intolerant: intolerant of any attempt at corruption, intolerant of any form of wrongdoing” said the President of the PACE at the launching of the new PACE anti-corruption platform.
08/04/2014 | Session
On opening the PACE session, Anne Brasseur marked International Roma Day by calling on the member states to take practical measures to break the vicious circle of discrimination affecting many Roma.
08/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
US whistleblower Edward Snowden, testifying by video-link to a PACE hearing on “mass surveillance”, has told parliamentarians: “Dragnet mass surveillance is ineffective at preventing terrorism”.
08/04/2014 | Session
"The International Roma Day is a good opportunity to think about the most excluded European minority. In some countries, they are subject to policies to undermine their right to leave the country," said Nils Muizniecks.
08/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli called on the Texan authorities today not to execute Ramiro Hernandez Llanas, a Mexican national sentenced to death in February 2000, whose execution is scheduled for 9 April in Texas.
08/04/2014 | Session
PACE decided to grant the Kyrgyz Parliament Partner for democracy status. For the Assembly, obtaining this status is “an important incentive to further develop democracy, the rule of law and protection of human rights in Kyrgyzstan”.
08/04/2014 | Session
The protection of the rights of national minorities must continue to be a political priority, PACE said, approving a report by Ferenc Kalmár. The Assembly called for “unity through diversity” within and between countries.
07/04/2014 | Session
The Assembly will hold an urgent debate on threats to the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine and will debate a request to reconsider the already ratified credentials of the Russian delegation.
07/04/2014 | Session
The Assembly approved the report presented today by Nataša Vučković reviewing the activities of the Assembly's Bureau and Standing Committee since the last part-session in 2014 (27-31 January).
07/04/2014 | Session
"Russia has consistently used the allegation of minorities not being properly treated as a pretext for actions taken," Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said adressing the Parliamentary Assembly.