04/03/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, in co-operation with the Dutch delegation to PACE, will be holding a parliamentary seminar in The Hague on 5 March on “The role of the Dutch parliament in protecting the right to a healthy environment”. This seminar aims to...
04/03/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Recalling the “unequivocal obligation” to implement judgments of the Strasbourg Court in a “timely and effective manner”, the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights today expressed concern at the failure of some States Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights to remedy the...
04/03/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), PACE rapporteur on “The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza” today made the following statement: “I am deeply alarmed by Israel’s decision to halt humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip. The blocking...
03/03/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Gala Veldhoen (Netherlands, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the abolition of the death penalty, has expressed her dismay at the announcement of a firing squad execution in the United States. “Brad Sigmon, on death row since his conviction...
03/03/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A PACE hearing on ‘Proceeds of the crime denounced by Sergei Magnitsky found in Switzerland must not be returned to the presumed perpetrators’ was organised by the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights in Paris today, in the context of the report being prepared by Lesia Vasylenko (Ukraine...
03/03/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In the framework of the preparation of a follow-up report on the PACE resolution on Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance, the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights organised a hearing on the subject in Paris today. Participants in the hearing included Iain Cameron...
27/02/2025 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has urged that any peace plan to end the brutal conflict in Ukraine must “be based on justice and respect for international law”. Delivering the Lord Speaker’s Lecture last night to a select audience at the House of Lords in London, during a working visit to...
24/02/2025 | President
“Peace must not only be lasting; it must be just. Justice for Ukraine has been at the heart of the Council of Europe’s mission over these past three years. And today, with the controversies that surround possible peace talks, more than ever, we must stand firm in upholding it,” the PACE President...
20/02/2025 | Monitoring
The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), have today made the following statement concerning the situation in the country: "We are very concerned about the political climate in Serbia, which has recently been marked by a...
20/02/2025 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to the United Kingdom on 25-26 February. During his visit, he will meet the Speakers of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, and will hold bilateral meetings with...
11/02/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Chamber of Deputies of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg will be holding a parliamentary conference in Luxembourg on 14 February on “The role of national parliaments in protecting the right to a healthy environment”, as part of the...
10/02/2025 | Election observation
Kosovo voters demonstrated their commitment to democracy by voting peacefully and without tensions during the 9 February 2025 elections to the Assembly of Kosovo, according to the observers’ delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Members of local election...