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 | 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’.
29/01/2014 | Session
“I hope that the co-operation between the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will grow and strengthen,” emphasised Martin Schulz in his address to PACE.
29/01/2014 | Session
In view of the alarming situation of Syrian refugees, the Parliamentary Assembly has called on member and observer States to "show generosity and solidarity" in admitting these refugees to their territory.
29/01/2014 | Session
European states should do more to correct “misconceptions” about migrants, since the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that they are a benefit to society, according to the Parliamentary Assembly.
28/01/2014 | Session
In his speech to the Parliamentary Assembly, Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, called on members states to ratify the Council of Europe’s revised Social Charter and step up efforts to reduce social inequalities.