07/04/2014 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today elected, at the opening of its Spring 2014 plenary Session, two new Vice-Presidents: Predrag Sekulić (Montenegro, SOC) and Michele Nicoletti (Italy, SOC).
07/04/2014 | President
“Our Organisation and Europe as a whole are facing a serious crisis, which represents a huge challenge to the values and principles that we defend, and also to peace and international co-operation”, PACE President said.
07/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
US whistleblower Edward Snowden is to testify from Moscow by live video-link at a parliamentary hearing on “mass surveillance” taking place at 2 p.m. today, Tuesday 8 April,in Strasbourg.
04/04/2014 | Session
At its spring session, PACE will debate a motion to reconsider the already ratified credentials of the delegation of the Russian Federation on substantive grounds (under Rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure).
04/04/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“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 | 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”.