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.
11/03/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The committee today called for higher quality teaching, provided without discrimination, promoting gender equality in and through education and countering homophobia.
11/03/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Online surveillance, profiling or storage of user data must be carried out in line with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights, PACE’s Culture, Science, Education and Media Committee has said.
10/03/2014 | Election observation
A 18-member delegation, headed by Pedro Agramunt, will be present in Serbia from 14 to 17 March to observe the early parliamentary elections alongside observers from the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly and ODIHR.
10/03/2014 | President
Participating in a side event at the 58th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN in New York, Anne Brasseur called to stand up and give a voice to victims of trafficking in human beings.
07/03/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE’s Equal Opportunities Committee has spelled out a series of ways that parliaments and national human rights institutions (NHRIs) can work together better, particularly on equality and non-discrimination issues.
07/03/2014 | President
“Although great strides have been made in Europe with gender equality, our challenge today is to achieve de facto equality”, PACE President Anne Brasseur declared on the eve of International Women's Day.
07/03/2014 | Standing Committee
The Assembly has noted that there are still many cases of child abuse, including sexual abuse, which remain unreported and has called for information campaigns to raise public awareness of the problem.