08/12/2010 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Participants at a round table on the rights of migrant women, organised by the PACE Migration Committee in Paris today, have called for reinforced protection through legal means and improved practices. “214 million international migrants are women. Whereas earlier the presence of women was attached to family reunification, the current trend shows that women are migrating independently,” the rapporteur Pernille Frahm (Denmark, UEL) stressed.
07/12/2010 | President
PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu, is to make an official visit to Bulgaria from 8 to 10 December. During his visit, he is due to meet in particular the Speaker of the National Assembly Tsetska Tsacheva, the President of the Republic Georgi Parvanov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolay Mladenov and the Minister of Justice Margarita Popova.
03/12/2010 | Political Affairs and Democracy
A ten-member PACE delegation visiting the United Nations on the occasion of the General Assembly session has held a round of meetings with leading UN officials and ambassadors to discuss topics including peacekeeping and peace-building operations, counter-terrorism and human rights, as well as regional issues such as the situation in Kosovo.*
03/12/2010 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Strasbourg, 03.12.2010 - The accession by the European Union to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings would ensure that “the Convention’s high standards and human rights approach are uniformly applied throughout Europe”, today said the participants in the...
03/12/2010 | Political Affairs and Democracy
"Each of us has an individual political responsibility: let us not tolerate slavery. Let us not be powerless witnesses but fight against it", today said Jose Mendes Bota (Portugal, EPP/CD) at the opening of the Interparliamentary Conference 'Parliaments united against trafficking in human beings', organised in Paris by PACE's Committee on Equal Opportunities. "Trafficking in human beings affects us all as members of parliament. Victims of trafficking are powerless. We have the power to change their situation. We have the power to give them a voice", he added.
02/12/2010 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Carina Ohlsson (Sweden, SOC), Chair of PACE’s Sub-committee on Children, has spelled out the legal changes that are needed across Europe to protect children against sexual abuse. A 14-member PACE delegation is taking part in the launch in Rome of the Council of Europe’s new “one in five” campaign to stop sexual violence against children, to draw attention to ambitious plans for the parliamentary dimension of the campaign.
02/12/2010 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The PACE Committee on Equal Opportunities today asked European governments for specific legal, economic and social measures to improve the situation of rural women. The committee members stressed that unemployment, poverty and low quality or absence of basic services particularly affected rural women, as did stereotyped roles and subordinate status, the outcome of traditional attitudes.
02/12/2010 | President
“Light is the symbol of tolerance, education and respect for others. All these symbols that unite the Jews across the world during the eight days of Hanukkah are also the symbols and values that unite all the people across Europe in an institution that I have the honour to chair, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,” the PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu said today on the occasion of the rekindling of the Hanukkah Flame in Paris.
01/12/2010 | President
In his speech at the Assembly of WEU, European Security and Defence Assembly in Paris today, PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu stressed that international parliamentary scrutiny was just as essential for democratic stability as the control that was exercised by national parliaments.
30/11/2010 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Carina Ohlsson (Sweden, SOC), Chair of PACE’s Sub-committee on Children, has spelled out the legal changes that are needed across Europe to protect children against sexual abuse. A 14-member PACE delegation is taking part in the launch in Rome of the Council of Europe’s new “one in five” campaign to stop sexual violence against children, to draw attention to ambitious plans for the parliamentary dimension of the campaign.
30/11/2010 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE Rapporteur David Darchiashvili (Georgia, EPP/CD) has expressed his deep concern at the decision taken by the Albanian authorities to extradite Almir Rrapo to the United States on 24 November 2010, ignoring a binding interim measure ordered by the Court that this applicant should not be extradited to the USA. Mr Darchiashvili is the Rapporteur on Rule 39 indications by the European Court of Human Rights.
29/11/2010 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE Vice-President and former Irish childrens’ minister Frank Fahey (Ireland, ALDE) has recalled how transparent inquiries enabled Ireland to face up to the “painful experience” of dealing with child sexual abuse and urged other countries to do the same.