07/05/2024 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to Austria on 14-15 May. In Vienna, he will meet the Speaker of the Austrian National Council as well as the Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). On 15 May, Mr...
02/05/2024 | Prizes
The selection panel of the Vigdís Prize for Women's Empowerment, which rewards outstanding initiatives to promote the empowerment of women in all their diversity in Europe and beyond, has today announced the shortlist for the first ever edition of the Award. Meeting in Reykjavík, the panel – made...
30/04/2024 | Election observation
A 21-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Alfred Heer (Switzerland, ALDE), will travel to North Macedonia from 6 to 9 May to observe the parliamentary elections and second round of the presidential election, alongside observers from the OSCE...
30/04/2024 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, and Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights...
30/04/2024 | President
As part of the project “Support for the development of the role of Parliament in the consolidation of democracy in Morocco 2020-2024”, financed by the European Union and implemented by the Council of Europe, the Parliament of the Kingdom of Morocco and PACE today organised a seminar to close...
30/04/2024 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), have called on the Georgian Parliament to ensure that any recommendations made by the Venice Commission concerning the draft law on the “Transparency of Foreign Influence” are taken into...
29/04/2024 | Prizes
The Selection Panel for the Vigdís Prize for Women's Empowerment, chaired by Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and composed of six independent members with recognised standing in the field of women’s empowerment, will meet on 2 May at...
27/04/2024 | President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, and the Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Maulen Ashimbayev, today made the following joint statement on the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Agreement on Cooperation...
25/04/2024 | Election observation
North Macedonia’s presidential election campaign was competitive and fundamental freedoms including media freedom were respected, but important areas of the presidential contest that included campaign rules, access to the media, and allocation of state funding are not regulated, undermining the...
25/04/2024 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to Morocco on 29-30 April. In Rabat, he will meet the Speakers of the two Houses of the Moroccan Parliament, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other members of the...
24/04/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Despite international pledges to work towards ending child labour in all its forms, the latest figures show a “worsening global situation”, according to PACE’s Social Affairs Committee – with some 79 million children worldwide, between 5 and 17, working in hazardous conditions. Approving a report...
23/04/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
In adopting the report by Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC) on 16 April, the Committee on Equality strongly condemned the frequent attacks perpetrated against women human rights defenders, and called for an end to impunity for perpetrators of violence. The report emphasises that women human rights...