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...
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 | Elections
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.
07/03/2014 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee expressed its full support for the territorial integrity and national unity of Ukraine and strongly condemned the violation by Russia of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
07/03/2014 | Standing Committee
According to the Standing Committee, heritage preservation needs policies which should take into account not only the costs of conservation projects but also their contribution to economic and social development.
07/03/2014 | Standing Committee
The European Convention on Human Rights and the case-law of the Strasbourg Court should be an integral part of the basic and further training of law professionals throughout the Council of Europe area, according to PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee. Approving a report by Jean-Pierre Michel (France...
07/03/2014 | Elections
A delegation led by Stefan Schennach will carry out a pre-electoral visit to Skopje on 11-12 March, ahead of the presidential election in “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” on 13 April.