Organisation of a Parliamentary Conference on Human Rights
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 21 January 1971 (21st Sitting) (see Doc. 2894, report of the Legal Affairs Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 21 January 1971 (21st Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Recalling that it took the initiative in 1949 of proposing the drawing up of a European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ;
2. Considering that the application of that Convention has not only brought credit to the organs set up by the Convention, but has also increased the general prestige of the Council of Europe ;
3. Noting however that, twenty years after the conclusion of the Convention, new ideas are emerging and new techniques are being developed, creating situations which were unforeseeable a short time ago ;
4. Realising the consequent need for a confrontation, at parliamentary level, of the views of legislators from Council of Europe member States, with the aim of drawing up a common programme for simultaneous implementation in the years ahead,
5. Resolves :
a to convene a Parliamentary Conference on Human Rights to define the basic choices to be made in the matter and thus determine the essential items of an "outline programme" for the years ahead ;
b to instruct the Legal Affairs Committee to organise this Conference, if need be with the aid of consultants, and report back on its work ;
c to ask the Secretary General to assist the Assembly in implementing this resolution.
