05/07/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Selin Sayek Böke (Türkiye, SOC), the Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, has issued the following statement today: “The death of a 17-year-old boy in France, shot by a policeman at a routine traffic stop, is both profoundly shocking and heart...
27/06/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has hailed the creation of an international Register of Damage for Ukraine as “a first practical step” towards obtaining reparation for the damage caused to the Ukrainian people by Russia’s war of aggression – and urged that it record also loss or damage caused by private...
23/06/2023 | Session
A joint urgent debate on the political consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, was a highlight of the Summer plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
23/06/2023 | Session
Digital technologies have become increasingly present in all aspects of our lives, offering tremendous progress and opportunities. However, for those who do not have access to such technologies or who are unable to use them, the digital divide has emerged as a major barrier to equality...
23/06/2023 | Session
PACE has condemned all forms of transnational repression – the assassination, intimidation or harassment by a state of its perceived enemies living abroad – as a growing threat to the rule of law and human rights. Approving a report on the topic by Sir Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EC/DA...
22/06/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On Wednesday 21 June Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD) was appointed as General Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers by the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. “Human rights defenders and...
22/06/2023 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its constituent sports bodies to maintain the position expressed in 2022, and to prohibit the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris Olympic and Paralympic...
22/06/2023 | Session
PACE considers that one of the main political consequences of the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine is “that it has forged a renewed bond amongst democracies in support of Ukraine”. According to the parliamentarians, the Reykjavik Summit is the expression of this unity around...
22/06/2023 | Session
At the end of an urgent debate on ‘Ensuring free and safe access through the Lachin Corridor’, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today expressed its extreme concern by events which have unfolded since the signature of the Trilateral Statement on 9 November 2020, and which...
21/06/2023 | Session
Advocating the Council of Europe’s role as the legal bedrock of Europe, promoting the human right to clean and healthy environment, working with the young people, continuing support to Ukraine in fighting against Russia’s aggression and thinking about post-war reconstruction, as well as...
21/06/2023 | Session
In an unprecedented context of political, legal and international transformations in Europe, marked by the war of aggression waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the Assembly called on member States “to invest sufficient additional resources into the Organisation to allow it to...
21/06/2023 | Session
According to a resolution on PACE's priorities and expenditure needs for 2024-2025, adopted today on the basis of a report by Ingjerd Schou (Norway, EPP/CD), the Assembly will focus over this period on implementing the 4th Summit agenda. At the same time, the Assembly will continue the...