24/01/2024 | Session
The enlarged Assembly* today highlighted the role of the OECD and its initiatives to mitigate the negative trends in globalisation, in the new context resulting from shocks provoked by Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. The resolution adopted on the basis of the...
24/01/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has resolved not to ratify the credentials of the Azerbaijani delegation, which were challenged on the opening day of the session, concluding that the country has “not fulfilled major commitments” stemming from its joining the Council of Europe...
24/01/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Diana Petrova Kovacheva as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Bulgaria. Ms Diana Petrova Kovacheva, having obtained a majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term...
24/01/2024 | Session
Adopting a resolution on allegations of systemic torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in places of detention in Europe, based on a report by Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), the Assembly today called for enhanced measures to combat and eliminate torture and other forms...
24/01/2024 | Session
Michael O’Flaherty (Ireland) was today elected as the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights by the organisation’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) at its plenary session in Strasbourg. He will serve a non-renewable term of six years starting on 1 April 2024. Mr O’Flaherty obtained 104 of...
23/01/2024 | Session
“We are witnessing a growing attempted erosion of rules-based international order, rising nationalism and violations of human rights,” said Nikos Christodoulides, President of Cyprus, in his address to the Parliamentary Assembly. In outlining many of these and other challenges, he stressed that...
23/01/2024 | Session
The Assembly today ratified the credentials of the German parliamentary delegation to PACE, which had been challenged on the opening day of the Assembly’s session on the procedural grounds of a lack of political balance within the delegation. The Assembly’s Rules Committee submitted its opinion...
23/01/2024 | Session
“As we navigate the complexities of our international and interconnected world, it is upon us to recognise that the values of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights are not just regional aspirations but universal imperatives”, said the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, in his...
23/01/2024 | Session
PACE today expressed concern at the intensification of a partial and biased treatment of the issue of migration and asylum in election campaigns, which legitimises political programmes aimed at hindering migrants' access to their rights in contravention of the Council of Europe’s standards and...
23/01/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Gediminas Sagatys as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Lithuania. Mr Sagatys, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office...
23/01/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Stéphane Pisani as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Luxembourg. Mr Stéphane Pisani, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...
23/01/2024 | Session
At a plenary session debate in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) “unequivocally and in the strongest possible terms condemned the barbaric attack conducted by Hamas and other militia groups against Israel on 7 October 2023”, acts which “cannot be justified on...