02/09/2013 | Bureau
PACE Bureau, meeting today in Dubrovnik (Croatia), called for an inclusive reconciliation process and political dialogue in Egypt which would prevent any further recourse to violence, allow a return to stability and create conditions...
02/09/2013 | Bureau
PACE Bureau, meeting today in Dubrovnik (Croatia), condemned the apparent use of chemical weapons in Syria which, on 21 August 2013, caused the death of hundreds of people, including a large number of children.
30/08/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, Tineke Strik (Netherlands, SOC), Vice-Chairperson for the Migration Committee, stressed the importance of speeding up the solution to the problem of missing persons...
30/08/2013 | President
Jean-Claude Mignon will make an official visit to Croatia during which he is due to meet the Prime Minister, the Speaker of Parliament and the First Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs.
26/08/2013 | Prizes
Ales Bialiatski (Belarus), the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (Georgia) and the Rights Defence Network (China), are the three candidates shortlisted in Prague today for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. The selection panel, comprising six independent figures and chaired by Jean-Claude Mignon, PACE President, drew up its shortlist on the basis of 27 candidatures which fulfilled the criteria for the Prize.
22/08/2013 | Prizes
The Selection Panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, chaired by PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, comprising six independent figures known for expertise in the field of human rights, will meet on 26 August 2013 in the Vaclav Havel Library in Prague to determine the three nominees which will be shortlisted from the candidatures received.
21/08/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Jean-Marie Bockel (France, EPP/CD), who is preparing a PACE report on international assistance for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, today begins a fact-finding visit to Turkey (21 to 22 August 2013)...
20/08/2013 | Prizes
A delegation of parliamentarians, led by the Vice-Chairperson of the PACE Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize, Axel Fischer (Germany, EPP/CD), today presented the 2013 Europe prize to the Mayor of the Hungarian town of Tata, József Michl, on the occasion of the Hungarian National Day.
14/08/2013 | President
« I am deeply shocked at the disproportionate use of force by the police during the clearing of pro-Morsi gatherings in Cairo,” said today PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon. “Although the number of dead has not yet been definitely established, such a toll, in an operation against demonstrators, is unacceptable.”
06/08/2013 | Monitoring
Nursuna Memecan and Kimmo Sasi, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Montenegro, have welcomed the adoption of the constitutional amendments on the judiciary by the Montenegrin parliament on July 2013.
02/08/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marina Schuster has called on the State of Florida to stay the execution of John Errol Ferguson and to review his case. “Executing people suffering from mental illness constitutes cruel and unusual punishment".
01/08/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Chair of the Committee on Political Affairs, joined by Pietro Marcenaro, former PACE Rapporteur on the situation in Syria, has expressed deep concern at the disappearance of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio.