27/04/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Increasing reliance on digital technologies in all fields of life risks leaving behind people who are unfamiliar with or do not have full access to all the necessary tools, exacerbating existing inequalities in society and creating new ones. Calling on States to take comprehensive measures to...
27/04/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Türkiye, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), have reacted to recent police raids in the country targeting politicians, lawyers, journalists and civil society...
27/04/2023 | Session
PACE has demanded the safe return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia or territory it temporarily occupies, as well as punishment of those who carried it out at all levels – pointing out that the documented evidence of this practice matches with the international definition of...
27/04/2023 | Women@PACE
The ‘Women@PACE’ group today held an exchange of views with Ms Anita Bhatia, UN Women Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, on innovation and technological change: progress towards gender equality, and on the role of parliamentarians in implementing the...
27/04/2023 | Session
"If there is one lesson to be drawn from the current sanguinary page of European history written by the Russian Federation, it is that appeasement is not an option. The aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is not only a brutal, illegal, unjustified and unjustifiable war of...
27/04/2023 | Session
According to PACE, trade should be greener and fairer: all trade and investment agreements should contain “comprehensive provisions on sustainable development and protection of fundamental rights”, with strong enforcement which is commensurate with protecting investors. Unanimously approving a...
27/04/2023 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE held a hearing on “exploring AI in schools” during its spring plenary session, in which students from the American Community Schools in Athens presented their project for exploring ethics in AI by designing and building a humanoid robot called “Niki”. The school’s President Peggy Pelonis...
26/04/2023 | Women@PACE
At its next meeting in the margins of the PACE plenary session, the informal ‘Women@PACE’ group will hold an exchange of views on innovation and technological change: progress towards gender equality, and in particular, the role of parliamentarians in implementing the conclusions of the 67th...
26/04/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The 2023 Europe Prize has been awarded to Bolesławiec in Poland. This award is given annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to the town most actively promoting the European ideal. Bolesławiec is a city of 90 000 inhabitants in western Poland, at the crossroads of...
26/04/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Ian Liddell-Granger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), and the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana...
26/04/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Assembly’s Parliamentary Network for a Healthy Environment has urged Council of Europe leaders – meeting at the Reykjavik Summit in three weeks – to place the protection of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment high on their agenda. “Governments should seize this...
26/04/2023 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Sebastian Răduleţu as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Romania. Mr Răduleţu, having obtained a majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office of nine...