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Ian Micallef, President a.i. of the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, today expressed his concern about proposed constitutional amendments in Azerbaijan, which are to be submitted to a referendum on 18 March 2009. “The amendments ...

At the end of an urgent debate on the consequences of the global financial crisis, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 29 January reminded the European governments of “their responsibility to protect citizens’ social and human ...

The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting on 29 January 2009 in Strasbourg, examined recent developments in Azerbaijan and decided to request the opinion of the Venice Commission – the Council of Europe’s ...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 28 January called on both Russia and Georgia to allow unhindered and unconditional access for humanitarian organisations and aid to South Ossetia and Abkhazia – and said it was unacceptable ...

The investigation into the murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze cannot be considered solved until the “instigators and organisers” are held to account in addition to the actual perpetrators of the crime, according to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council ...

At the end of the 27 January morning's winter session debate and following the proposals of the monitoring co-rapporteurs for Armenia, Georges Colombier (France, EPP/CD) and John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) ...

The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), meeting this morning in Strasbourg, adopted the following statement[1]: “Following the recent spate of murders and disappearances of a lawyer, a journalist, ...

“I welcome the frank discussions with the Russian authorities and their willingness to engage in a constructive and open dialogue with the Assembly,” said Lluís Maria de Puig, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), at ...

"The murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova on the streets of Moscow is only the most recent attack on  people working for human rights in Chechnya. It follows the murder of another Russian citizen, Umar Ismailov, in ...

The implementation of Resolution 1633 on the consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia, adopted in October 2008, and the humanitarian consequences of the conflict will be one of the highlights of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly ...