18/03/2025 | Prizes
The President of the Assembly presented the second Human Rights in Motion Award for 2025 on Sunday, 16 March, at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The jury selected the documentary Coexistence, My Ass!, which also won the Golden Alexander, the festival's top prize. The winners received €5...
18/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Today’s adoption by the Hungarian Parliament by accelerated procedure of a law banning the organisation of the Pride march and similar events and prohibiting participation in this type of event, to enter into force at the beginning of April, is an important setback not only for LGBTI rights, but...
14/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Francesco Verducci (Italy, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on Combating Racism and Intolerance, has made the following statement to mark the International Day to Combat Islamophobia (15 March 2025): “On this day we not only commemorate the victims of the tragic mass shootings in Christchurch, New...
14/03/2025 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has welcomed the finalisation of the peace agreement being negotiated between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “I welcome the respective announcements made yesterday by the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the finalisation of their negotiations on the draft...
11/03/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Committee on Migration, meeting today in Paris, expressed concern about the growing divergence between international law and member states’ practice as regards collective expulsions of foreigners, recalling that such expulsions are “formally prohibited under Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 to the...
11/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“There is progress towards equality, but it is much too slow, and this is partly due to short-sightedness among men who think mistakenly that ‘power-sharing’ means ‘power-loss’,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos at the opening of a side-event on the sidelines of the 69th session of the...
10/03/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“I am deeply alarmed by reports of mass killings targeting civilians, especially the Alawite minority and other religious communities, in Syria’s coastal regions,” said Dora Bakoyannis (Greece, EPP/CD), PACE’s rapporteur on the situation in the Middle East. “These atrocities, including the...
07/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Joint statement by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos and the Chair of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, Catia Polidori (Italy, EPP/CD), on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2025. Today, on International Women’s Day, the United Nations is calling for rights...
06/03/2025 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos will meet António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, on 10 March in New York, on the occasion of the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. He will also speak at the opening of a side event organised by PACE's Committee on...
05/03/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Stating that foreign interference, in its many forms, is a “substantial and persistent” threat to democratic security, the Political Affairs Committee today condemned “deliberate and systematic efforts by foreign actors to undermine electoral and democratic processes and institutions”. The...
05/03/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Political Affairs Committee considers that it is “more important than ever” for Europe to strengthen its ties with regions that share its values and, in that sense, the Latin American region “should be considered as a natural ally”. According to parliamentarians, while the existing...
05/03/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
European leaders should bring the European Political Community (EPC) and the Council of Europe closer together and, in line with the Reykjavik Declaration, “set an example of effective and dynamic multilateralism” that promotes shared values and underpins security and stability in Europe, the...