25/03/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee is calling for laws to protect children by reducing their exposure to harmful content online while not infringing on their opportunities to benefit from the internet. The Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee, approving a draft resolution and recommendation on the basis of a report...
21/03/2024 | Election observation
A six-member, cross-party PACE observer delegation, led by Alfred Heer (Switzerland, ALDE), is to make a pre-electoral visit to North Macedonia on 26-27 March 2024 to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the presidential and parliamentary elections in the country on 24...
20/03/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination on combating racism and intolerance made the following statement: “The International day for the elimination of racial discrimination is an opportunity to...
20/03/2024 | President
Following yesterday's decision by the International Olympic Committee not to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and responding to a call by Ukraine’s Olympic Champions* urging PACE’s continued support for a total ban on...
18/03/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE’s Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination 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...
17/03/2024 | President
Following the Presidential election in Russia, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos today made the following statement: "Some minutes ago, the polling stations in the so-called ‘elections’ in the Russian Federation closed and the exit polls announced the projections. And there was little surprise...
15/03/2024 | Prizes
Today is the last day to submit nominations for the first edition of the 2024 Vigdís Prize, which will be awarded next June. The Vigdís Prize aims to reward outstanding initiatives promoting women's empowerment in all their diversity, with a broad remit covering achievements in gender equality or...
14/03/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the eve of the International Day to Combat Islamophobia (15 March 2024), Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC), PACE’s General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance, made the following statement: “In a time of division and intolerance, Muslim people face increasing discrimination in Europe. In...
13/03/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE’s General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers and rapporteur on “Alexei Navalny’s death and the need to counter Vladimir Putin’s totalitarian regime and its war on democracy”, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), has condemned last night’s attack against Leonid Volkov...
12/03/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
‘There can be no equality without an end to violence against women […] but there is another important condition for equality, which is women’s empowerment,” today said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, at the opening of a side-event on the sidelines of the 68th Session of the Commission on...
12/03/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has urged more effective and properly institutionalised co-operation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe during a meeting yesterday in New York with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is a former member of PACE. Such co-operation would...
12/03/2024 | Political Affairs and Democracy
At its meeting on 5 March in Paris, the PACE Political Affairs committee endorsed the Revised Code of Good Practice on Referendums, responding to concerns about the fairness and outcomes of national referendums. This endorsement builds upon Resolution 2251 (2019), where the Assembly highlighted...