03/12/2013 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine, Mailis Reps and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin, have called on the Ukrainian authorities to show restraint and to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters.
03/12/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2014 has been awarded to the Baksi Museum in Bayburt (Turkey). This museum aspires to bring a high standard of art and design to an under-developed rural area of Northern Anatolia.
02/12/2013 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Women and girls with disabilities need special attention, since they are exposed to higher risks of violence,” said Carmen Quintanilla on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
02/12/2013 | News
“Does the ‘crowd in the cloud’ speak for the majority, or is this a new version of mob rule?” asks PACE Vice-President Robert Walter, addressing the impact of social media at the World Forum for Democracy.
02/12/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
José María Beneyto, who is preparing a report on political transition in Egypt, begins today a four-day visit to the country during which he is due to meet the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of Justice.
02/12/2013 | Parliamentary support
During a seminar held on 2 December 2013 in Belgrade, parliamentarians discussed the strengthening of the legal and institutional capacity of parliamentarians to counter corruption in their own ranks.
29/11/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“I am shocked to read the results of an investigation into the 11 October boat tragedy in the waters between Lampedusa and Malta, which reveals that over 200 people fleeing Syria died when they could have been saved,” said Tineke Strik.
29/11/2013 | Monitoring
Jonathan Evans and Grigore Petrenco co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Albania, will make a fact-finding visit to that country from 1 to 5 December.
29/11/2013 | Monitoring
Robert Walter (United Kingdom, EDG), rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 2-3 December 2013.
29/11/2013 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The committee will hold a seminar on 2 December in Belgrade, in co-operation with the PACE Parliamentary Project Support Division, on the mechanisms available to national parliaments to counter corruption.
29/11/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Mailis Reps, rapporteur on “Strengthening the protection and role of human rights defenders in Council of Europe Member States”, has just ended a series of fact-finding visits to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan (20-29 November 2013).
28/11/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“Crowdsourcing and semantic polling are tools that help policy-makers, but it will always be up to policy-makers to assume full responsibility and not water it down”, said Anne Brasseur.