28/11/2023 | Standing Committee
“It is time to shoulder our responsibility to implement the Reykjavik priorities. This means re-doubling our efforts to modernise our Organisation, make it more efficient, more ‘green’ and more responsive to the expectations of our citizens. We must be responsible and frugal, and we must...
28/11/2023 | Standing Committee
“In this fast-moving and volatile situation, our Assembly must do everything it can to contribute to finding a peaceful end to the spiral of violence and the terrible humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which UNICEF has named as the most dangerous place on earth to be a child today”, Aleksander Pociej...
27/11/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Hungary by PACE, Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), have made the following statement: “We were informed that the Hungarian Parliament has started to examine a bill on the ‘defence of national sovereignty’, as well as...
27/11/2023 | Elections
A team of PACE pre-election observers, ending a two-day visit to Serbia, has noted a highly polarised campaign ahead of next month’s early parliamentary elections, marked by an unprecedented level of negative campaigning and fearmongering, attacks against the opposition and journalists and...
23/11/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Violence against women and girls is still one of the most serious human rights violations across Europe and throughout the world, deeply rooted as it is in multiple forms of gender inequality and discrimination. Despite progress, better laws and better policies in many countries, women’s rights...
22/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan”; Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on media freedom and safety of journalists; and Sunna Aevarsdottir (Iceland, SOC), PACE General...
20/11/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"20 November is a day to honour the memory of transgender victims of hatred. They are discriminated against and persecuted around the world, victims of harassment, physical and psychological violence and hate crimes," stated Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Assembly on...
20/11/2023 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), one of the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 20-21 November, to further assess the honouring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe, since the adoption of PACE Resolution...
17/11/2023 | President
Statement by PACE President Tiny Kox to mark the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (18 November): “Today I am calling on policy-makers everywhere to listen to, and learn from, the victims and survivors of childhood sexual violence when...
16/11/2023 | Secretary General of the Assembly
“We need to rethink and innovate democracy” so that it is equipped to tackle the problems of today and, at the same time, is ready to face the challenges of tomorrow. “We can only achieve this if young people are heard and involved, on an equal footing and in a balanced way, in the political...
15/11/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), have called on Council of Europe member states to support Armenia as it faces the...
15/11/2023 | President
Joint Statement by Mr Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Ms Ana Lilia Rivera, Speaker of the Mexican Senate; and Ms Marcela Guerra Castillo, Speaker of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies: 15 November 2023 On the occasion of the official visit to Mexico by Mr...