18/04/2024 | Session
PACE, meeting today in plenary session, deplored the fact that the Council of Europe is now the only regional human rights system which has not yet formally recognised the right to a healthy environment. It recalled that at the 4th Council of Europe Summit in Reykjavik (16-17 May 2023), the Heads...
18/04/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today said that our planet’s seas and oceans are “complex ecosystems that are vital for sustaining biodiversity and the livelihood of humans, as well as for regulating the global climate” and added that they could be our “allies” in mitigating...
18/04/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has warmly welcomed the finalisation of the draft Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law which has been drawn up within the Council of Europe – but regretted that it “does not cover to...
18/04/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, meeting this week in Strasbourg, held a current affairs debate today on responding to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and preventing further escalations in the Middle East following the recent Iranian attack against Israel. The debate was opened...
17/04/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today condemned the “severe persecution” and repression of dissent in Russia and Belarus amid the illegal full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. In adopting a resolution based on the report by Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland...
17/04/2024 | Session
In her communication, Dominique Hasler, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sport of Liechtenstein and President of the Committee of Ministers, mentioned the need for continued support to Ukraine and referred to the Presidency’s priorities. “In Reykjavík our leaders sent a strong message...
17/04/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today reaffirmed its support for the protection of the fundamental rights to freedom of expression and assembly for LGBTI people across member States. “These are fundamental human rights possessed by every person, which they should be able to...
17/04/2024 | Session
All the persons directly responsible for and participating in the persecution and ill-treatment of Vladimir Kara-Murza* should be included in targeted sanctions lists, established under the “Magnitsky laws”, said PACE, meeting in plenary session. A link to a list of these individuals, including...
17/04/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg, has decided to close the monitoring procedure in respect of Albania and engage in a post-monitoring dialogue with the country. In unanimously adopting a resolution, based on the report by Ionuţ...
17/04/2024 | Election of Judges
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Alain Chablais as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Liechtenstein. Mr Chablais, having obtained a majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office of nine...
17/04/2024 | Session
PACE has paid tribute to Alexei Navalny, declaring that the Russian state bears full responsibility for his death, and urged a series of sweeping measures to counter what it called Vladimir Putin’s “totalitarian regime”. Unanimously adopting a resolution based on a report by Emanuelis Zingeris...
16/04/2024 | Session
During a lively Q & A session, the Secretary General reiterated the fundamental importance of the European Union accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, as an essential step for completing and ensuring the coherence of the Continent’s human rights’ architecture. Furthermore, Marija...