11/03/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Committee on Migration, meeting today in Paris, expressed concern about the growing divergence between international law and member states’ practice as regards collective expulsions of foreigners, recalling that such expulsions are “formally prohibited under Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 to the...
10/03/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“I am deeply alarmed by reports of mass killings targeting civilians, especially the Alawite minority and other religious communities, in Syria’s coastal regions,” said Dora Bakoyannis (Greece, EPP/CD), PACE’s rapporteur on the situation in the Middle East. “These atrocities, including the...
07/03/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Joint statement by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos and the Chair of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, Catia Polidori (Italy, EPP/CD), on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2025. Today, on International Women’s Day, the United Nations is calling for rights...
06/03/2025 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos will meet António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, on 10 March in New York, on the occasion of the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. He will also speak at the opening of a side event organised by PACE's Committee on...
05/03/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Stating that foreign interference, in its many forms, is a “substantial and persistent” threat to democratic security, the Political Affairs Committee today condemned “deliberate and systematic efforts by foreign actors to undermine electoral and democratic processes and institutions”. The...
05/03/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Political Affairs Committee considers that it is “more important than ever” for Europe to strengthen its ties with regions that share its values and, in that sense, the Latin American region “should be considered as a natural ally”. According to parliamentarians, while the existing...
05/03/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
European leaders should bring the European Political Community (EPC) and the Council of Europe closer together and, in line with the Reykjavik Declaration, “set an example of effective and dynamic multilateralism” that promotes shared values and underpins security and stability in Europe, the...
04/03/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, in co-operation with the Dutch delegation to PACE, will be holding a parliamentary seminar in The Hague on 5 March on “The role of the Dutch parliament in protecting the right to a healthy environment”. This seminar aims to...
04/03/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Recalling the “unequivocal obligation” to implement judgments of the Strasbourg Court in a “timely and effective manner”, the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights today expressed concern at the failure of some States Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights to remedy the...
04/03/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), PACE rapporteur on “The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza” today made the following statement: “I am deeply alarmed by Israel’s decision to halt humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip. The blocking...
03/03/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A PACE hearing on ‘Proceeds of the crime denounced by Sergei Magnitsky found in Switzerland must not be returned to the presumed perpetrators’ was organised by the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights in Paris today, in the context of the report being prepared by Lesia Vasylenko (Ukraine...
03/03/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In the framework of the preparation of a follow-up report on the PACE resolution on Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance, the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights organised a hearing on the subject in Paris today. Participants in the hearing included Iain Cameron...