31/01/2014 | Session
The adopted resolution, based on the report by José María Beneyto, makes a number of recommendations to increase international organisations’ accountability for human rights violations.
31/01/2014 | Session
The Council of Europe should revise and modernise the 24-year-old European Convention on Transfrontier Television to take account of the latest technological standards, PACE has said.
30/01/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE's General Rapporteur on LGBT issues has welcomed with satisfaction the decision of the de facto authorities in the northern part of Cyprus to abolish the criminalization of same-sex consensual relations.
30/01/2014 | Session
The eight committees of the Parliamentary Assembly have elected their Chairpersons - the full list is now out: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, Theodora Bakoyannis (Greece, EPP/CD);...
30/01/2014 | Session
The Ukrainian authorities should enter into “open, honest and effective negotiations with the opposition” and promptly seek a wide consensus on the geopolitical alignment, the Assembly said today at the end of an urgent debate.
30/01/2014 | Session
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told members of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly today that European governments cannot allow themselves to “become accustomed” to high youth unemployment.
30/01/2014 | President
“As we pay tribute to all the victims of the Holocaust, this ceremony reminds us that we must continue our fight against anti-Semitism, as well as other forms of hatred and intolerance", Anne Brasseur said.
30/01/2014 | Monitoring
On the basis of the preliminary findings of Josette Durrieu, the committee adopted a statement in which it stresses that it has been following events in Turkey since 17 December 2013 with concern.
30/01/2014 | Session
The Assembly has called on member States to step up their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015, the target date set by the United Nations at their summit in September 2000.
30/01/2014 | Session
PACE has proposed a comprehensive and ambitious international agreement to tackle climate change by 2015, in which individual countries would pass climate laws to move towards a global target and report to the UN.
29/01/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A committee is to invite whistleblower Edward Snowden and US officials to Strasbourg to debate the two themes of mass surveillance and whistleblowing at linked public hearings in April.
29/01/2014 | Session
“We must seize this opportunity to reconnect democratic institutions, via the Internet, with citizens who have moved away from them” the Assembly said today at the end of a debate on ‘The Internet and politics’.