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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
PACE approves Draft Protocol No. 15 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Draft Protocol No. 15 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms can be adopted by the Committee of Ministers and opened for signature and ratification as presently drafted, without amendment, according to the Parliamentary Assembly.
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| 26/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
PACE calls for a permanent body for ethical reflection on scientific issues
The increasing complexity of science and technology calls for the creation of a permanent global body for ethical reflection, the Assembly said today. Such structure would make it possible to address ethical issues as a “moving target”, rather than fixing an “ethical code”......
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| 26/04/2013 |
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News | Political Affairs and Democracy
Situation in the Middle East: PACE sub-committee to visit Israel
The members of the Sub-Committee on the Middle East of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), chaired by Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), will make a visit to Israel from 30 April to 1 May 2013, thus completing the second part of their visit to the Middle...
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| 26/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
PACE seeks ways to balance the risks and benefits of nanotechnology
Nanotechnology – the manipulation of matter on an atomic and molecular scale – and its myriad applications have the potential for enormous benefits, in particular in the field of “nanomedicine”, but can also do serious harm, PACE has pointed out. ...
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
The Assembly ratifies the credentials of Andriy Shevchenko
The Assembly today decided to deprive Serhiy Vlasenko of his mandate and to ratify the credentials of Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine, EPP/CD). This decision follows the challenge to Mr Shevchenko’s still unratified credentials made last Monday by Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands,...
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Syrian refugees: the international community’s duty of solidarity
“Fleeing the conflict in Syria, 1.3 million people have found refuge in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. Given the enormous efforts of these countries to handle this situation, we must remind the international community of its duty of solidarity...", Pietro Marcenaro...
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Antoni Marti: Andorra's key challenge is to open its economy
Antoni Martí, Head of Government of Andorra, today claimed that the most important challenge for his country today is moving towards a more open economy, based on cooperation, transparency and equality. ...
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Coerced sterilisations and castrations: 'never again'
“Never again”, Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC) declared today when presenting her report on coerced sterilisations and castrations to the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. ...
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Monitoring
PACE committee recommends monitoring of Hungary
PACE Monitoring Committee has recommended that the Assembly should open a “monitoring procedure” in respect of Hungary, citing deep concerns at “the erosion of democratic checks and balances” as a result of the new constitutional framework in the country.
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
PACE committee proposes changing regulatory provisions of monitoring and post-monitoring procedures
In adopting a report by Pedro Agramunt (Spain, SOC) today, the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs has proposed that monitoring and post-monitoring reports in future be presented to the Assembly at least once every three years....
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Assembly must cut expenditure in 2014 and 2015, according to a PACE committee
The report by Rudy Salles (France, EPP/CD) on PACE expenditure for 2014-2015, which was adopted today by the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs, states that the Assembly, in view of the determination of many member states to adopt...
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Human rights protection is under strain in Europe, says Commissioner Muižnieks
“The picture of the human rights situation which I have observed during country visits, meetings with authorities and discussions with NGO representatives in 2012 is worrying” said today Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights......
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
The EU needs to assist the countries beyond its eastern borders more to deal with migratory pressures
Much more needs to be done in the spirit of international co-operation and burden-sharing by the EU and its member States to assist the countries beyond their eastern borders to deal with migratory pressures, according to PACE.
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| 25/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Council of Europe parliamentarians still concerned about EU border agency’s respect for human rights
Although the EU’s border agency FRONTEX has recently taken steps to deal more effectively with its human rights obligations, concerns remain that these may not be enough, the PACE has said in a resolution on the agency adopted today in Strasbourg.
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| 24/04/2013 |
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News | Europe Prize
Altötting in Germany and Tata in Hungary are joint winners of the 2013 Europe Prize
The 2013 Europe Prize – awarded each year by the PACE to towns or cities most active in promoting the European ideal – has been awarded jointly to the towns of Altötting in Germany and Tata in Hungary.
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| 24/04/2013 |
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News | President
PACE President visiting Turkey from 13 to 15 May 2013
“In the run-up to my forthcoming official visit to Turkey, scheduled for 13-15 May 2013, I welcome the adoption by the Assembly of Resolution 1925 (2013) on Post-Monitoring Dialogue with Turkey, which acknowledges the major progress made by the authorities in honouring...
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| 24/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Safeguarding human rights in relation to religion and belief, and protecting religious communities from violence
Concerned about increasing physical and psychological violence against religious communities throughout the world, the Assembly today called on member States to take account of the situation of these communities in their bilateral political dialogue and to promote in their...
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| 24/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
PACE calls on national parliaments to deliver policies for culture based on Council of Europe values
PACE called on national parliaments to deliver policies for culture “which effectively uphold our common core values” – human rights, democracy and the rule of law. These policies should also ensure adequate access to education and support participation in cultural life,...
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| 24/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Prime Minister Ponta: Romanian Constitution should be fine-tuned to prevent political crises
Speaking to the Parliamentary Assembly today, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta highlighted the climate of cooperation that currently exists between the government and the president of Romania, after the political crisis in 2012....
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| 24/04/2013 |
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News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Assembly again calls for a European legal framework to protect young people’s rights
PACE has called for a specific legal instrument encompassing the social, economic and political rights of young people to ensure their full protection. Approving a report by Michael Connarty (United Kingdom, SOC), the Assembly said a framework convention at European level...
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