30/09/2024 | Session
The award ceremony for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2024 - which rewards outstanding human rights defenders around the world - was a highlight of the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), held in Strasbourg from 30 September to 4 October 2024. One...
30/09/2024 | Session
The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize; the lists of candidates for the posts of judges at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Cyprus, Poland and Slovenia; the upcoming election observations in the Republic of Moldova, Georgia and Bulgaria, as well as the participation of a delegation of...
26/09/2024 | President
On the eve of an appearance before PACE in Strasbourg next week, recently released Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza has described his experience of two-and-a-half years of detention in Russia during a 20-minute conversation with PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos. In the first...
26/09/2024 | Election observation
A PACE pre-electoral delegation, headed by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE), has concluded a two-day visit to Georgia (23-24 September 2024) ahead of the parliamentary elections of 26 October 2024. Mr Bulai stressed that these elections are taking place at a very crucial moment in Georgia’s European...
25/09/2024 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A guide for European parliamentarians and other policymakers on the practical steps they can take to help Belarusians living in exile in Council of Europe member states is published today. “The Luxembourg Solutions”, a 107-page guide in three languages (English, French and Belarusian) prepared by...
20/09/2024 | Election observation
A six-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE), will make a pre-electoral visit to Georgia from 23-24 September to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the parliamentary elections on 26 October 2024...
19/09/2024 | Election observation
A pre-election delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), concluding a visit to the Republic of Moldova on 17-18 September 2024, stressed that the country is at a critical crossroads. The upcoming presidential election and constitutional referendum on 20 October...
18/09/2024 | News
Parliamentary hearings on the humanitarian situation in the Middle East and on “Long Covid” were among items on the agenda of PACE’s Committee on Social, Health and Family Affairs, which met at the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon on 12-13 September. The hearing on “The humanitarian situation of...
17/09/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee is urging steps to ensure accessible, sustainable and adequate food for all – including enshrining a “right to food” in national constitutions and giving priority to a coherent legal framework to make food distribution, processing and marketing systems fairer and more stable...
16/09/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, meeting in Lisbon on 13 September, congratulated the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) for “its flexible and tailored support to its member states” in the context of the pandemic and natural disasters, and for the rapid...
13/09/2024 | Monitoring
In an information note following his visit to Türkiye from 11 to 14 June 2024, Stefan Schennach, one of the co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye, expressed a number of concerns relating to the independence of the judiciary, prison conditions, the execution of...
13/09/2024 | Election observation
A seven-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), will make a pre-electoral visit to the Republic of Moldova on 17-18 September to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the...