15/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Belarus’s efforts to move closer to the PACE will remain vain and fruitless as long as the death penalty is imposed on any Belarusian citizen,” two rapporteurs said, speaking following the execution of Hryhoriy Yuzepchuk.
14/05/2014 | Standing Committee
PACE Standing Committee will meet in Baku in the context of the Azerbaijani Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers. After the opening of the meeting by PACE President, the Speaker of the Milli Mejlis will address participants.
13/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Despite the panoply of standards providing a well-established framework for modelling juvenile justice, there is a dissonance between the rhetoric of human rights discourse and the reality of juvenile justice interventions.
13/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Underlining the need to continue negotiations with a view to achieve a mutually acceptable political solution to the Western Sahara conflict, the committee called on all parties to show realism and a spirit of compromise.
13/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a draft resolution unanimously adopted in Nicosia, the committee called on the Development Bank to strengthen its ties with the Council of Europe. The CEB should further maximise the social added-value of its projects.
13/05/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur, speaking on behalf of the Assembly’s Presidential Committee following a meeting in Luxembourg, has appealed to all sides in Ukraine to put an immediate end to violence and intimidation.
13/05/2014 | Monitoring
PACE rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine deeply regret the holding of so-called referendums in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, despite calls from the international community, including Russia, not to do so.
12/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee, meeting today in Nicosia, urged member States to reduce inequalities in diagnosis, screening and treatment of breast cancer, and ensure that patients have the level of care that they are entitled to.
12/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A guaranteed minimum income is an important element in reducing the social effects of the economic crisis, members of PACE's Social Affairs Committee were told at a meeting in Nicosia.
09/05/2014 | President
At the end of an official visit to Greece, Anne Brasseur has welcomed the commitment by Greek politicians in their great majority to the Council of Europe values, whilst calling for greater solidarity.
09/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Parliamentarians will meet in Nicosia (Cyprus) on 13 May 2014 to discuss how to create the right conditions for reporting and successfully prosecuting child sexual abuse cases.
07/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Parliamentary Assembly constitutes an ideal forum for the debate on the future political form of the EU and more specifically the challenges of opting for a federal Europe, said the Political Affairs Committee.