17/11/2013 | President
After his meeting with the President of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon welcomed the decision to embrace European values and standards, which Ukraine made when it joined the Council of Europe.
14/11/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A girl kneels quietly in a forest, trying to hold back tears. A man’s hand falls onto her shoulder. “Don’t tell your mother,” he says… Children facing sexual abuse within their family are being encouraged to “break the silence” and speak out about it in a powerful new short video from the Council...
14/11/2013 | President
“A true parliamentary democracy must be backed up by a democratic political culture, one based on pluralism, on respect for the rights of all political forces”, said PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, speaking in Moscow today.
14/11/2013 | President
At the close of his visit to the Russian Federation, PACE President underlined the major role played by this country at the European and international levels, saying "I am pleased that Russia is assuming to the full its due role within the Council of Europe."
13/11/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Europe must decouple its energy consumption from economic and demographic growth and moderate its energy needs by investing in energy efficiency and savings, according to the Committee on Social Affairs.
13/11/2013 | Monitoring
The committee made public an information note by the co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Montenegro Nursuna Memecan and Kimmo Sasi (Finland, EPP/CD) on their fact-finding visit to Pogdorica.
13/11/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“The Internet should be free, but not lawless,” Hans Guyt, the man behind the “Sweetie” online sting to unmask sexual predators, told a network of PACE parliamentarians today in Geneva.
13/11/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Europe can contribute added value by striving to reduce inequalities, so as to make further progress in the implementation of the MDGs by 2015. The Assembly should join forces with other parliamentary bodies.
12/11/2013 | President
Speaking on behalf of the Parliamentary Assembly, its President Jean-Claude Mignon has sent a message of solidarity, compassion and comfort to the families and loved ones of the thousands of victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
12/11/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee has urged governments to conclude “an ambitious global agreement” to tackle climate change by setting a target of a 20 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
08/11/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Hans Guyt, campaigns director for childrens’ rights NGO “Terre des Hommes” and the man behind the “Sweetie” project to unmask online child sexual predators using a virtual girl, is to talk about his work in Geneva.
08/11/2013 | Parliamentary support
A conference organised on 8 November 2013 in Lisbon, in co-operation with the PACE Committee on Political Affairs and the North-South Centre discussed political changes in the South Mediterranean and in the Middle East.