25/06/2026 | Session
PACE today expressed concern that overlapping crises were undermining food security, food systems and nutrition worldwide. It strongly condemned “the use of starvation as a method of warfare”, the unlawful denial of humanitarian access, and attacks on assets indispensable to the survival of the...
25/06/2026 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s General Rapporteur on the situation of women and children in the Palestinian territories, Joseph O'Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), made the following statement today: “I am deeply shocked by the latest findings and analysis of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied...
25/06/2026 | Session
PACE today called on member states’ health authorities to ensure that migrants and refugees have effective and free access to healthcare from the moment of first arrival, including mental healthcare. Member states should also guarantee these individuals access to vaccination, medicines, and...
25/06/2026 | Session
PACE today highlighted a number of challenges affecting media freedom in sport, including restrictions on journalistic access, contractual limitations, growing control of content by rights holders, intimidation and harassment, legal pressure and gender inequalities within sports media. Added to...
25/06/2026 | Session
Sandra Zampa (Italy, SOC), the Chair of the Assembly’s Migration Committee, opened a current affairs debate today on migration to Europe, pointing out that the debate was necessary because of two recent developments at European level: the entry into force of the EU’s New Pact on Migration and...
25/06/2026 | Session
“Genuine access to justice for all women and girls, in all their diversity, must be guaranteed without discrimination on any ground,” PACE said today during an urgent debate, emphasising that women are still often denied access to legal remedies and redress. According to the parliamentarians, the...
25/06/2026 | Session
Based on a report prepared by Allal Amraoui (Morocco), PACE stresses a human rights-based approach to food security, recalling that the right to food implies that food must be “available, accessible, sustainable and adequate”. It situates food security within the broader 1996 World Food Summit...
25/06/2026 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg today, warned that the growing dissemination of violent pornography “normalises gender-based violence” and creates “an environment conducive to an increase in such violence”, calling for stronger...
25/06/2026 | Session
PACE has condemned all forms of “transnational repression” – a form of foreign interference used by authoritarian regimes to repress political dissidents, journalists, human rights defenders and members of diaspora communities beyond their borders – and has urged new laws to prevent it. In a...
24/06/2026 | Session
PACE has underlined that Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings both major opportunities and serious risks for democratic systems, while warning that regulation and democratic governance frameworks are failing to keep up with the pace of innovation. “AI may represent the most transformative...
24/06/2026 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg, today expressed its concern at a broad climate of “silencing critical voices in Azerbaijan”, including through restrictive legislative measures, which effect has been to “suppress independent...
24/06/2026 | Women@PACE
To mark the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, the Women@PACE group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe hosted an informal luncheon bringing together women Ambassadors and members of the Assembly. The event was attended by the President of PACE Petra Bayr, Estonia's...