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MEDIABOX: PACE Secretary General Despina Chatzivassiliou speaks about her upcoming priorities for the Assembly in the wake of her re-election.

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Despina Chatzivassiliou re-elected as Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today re-elected Despina Chatzivassiliou to the post of Secretary General of the Assembly. She will serve a second five-year term starting on...

Congratulations to Despina Chatzivassiliou, who has just been re-elected as Secretary General of PACE for a second five-year term!

Full details...
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PACE committee calls for stronger action to guarantee the right to housing “The right to adequate housing is a universal human right and a cornerstone of social justice, human development and democratic stability,” underlined the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Susta...

🏠 “The right to adequate housing is a universal human right and a cornerstone of social justice,” says PACE committee, urging stronger action to end homelessness and protect the vulnerable.

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Journalists matter: PACE committee calls for urgent action to free Ukrainian journalists held in Russian captivity “The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is also a war against truth, in which free media and journalists are treated as enemies by the aggressor state,” said the Committee on Culture, Science, ...

PACE committee calls for urgent action to free at least 26 Ukrainian journalists in Russian captivity and proposes “Victory for Victoria” to honour journalist #VictoriaRoshchyna, tortured and killed after more than a year in detention.

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#JournalistsMatter

Immediate release of youth delegate Enes Hocaoğulları Immediate release of youth delegate Enes Hocaoğulları

Immediate release of youth delegate Enes Hocaoğulları --- full Statement here--- socpace.com/activites-ev...

‘Gaza: acts point in the direction of ethnic cleansing and genocide,’ PACE rapporteur says Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the ho...

"#Gaza: acts point in the direction of ethnic cleansing and genocide" says PACE rapporteur Saskia Kluit.

Read her full statement:
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‘Gaza: acts point in the direction of ethnic cleansing and genocide,’ PACE rapporteur says Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the ho...

Vanmorgen heb ik als rapporteur over de humanitaire crisis in Gaza (weer..) een verklaring uitgegeven.

De woorden genocide en etnische zuivering roepen binnen PACE veel weerstand op.
Maar het is zeer belangrijk om de juridische kaders van HRL scherp te houden.

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Countries hosting major international sporting events such as the World Cup must commit to "meaningful human rights guarantees" a PACE delegation has said during high-level meetings at FIFA HQ.

The @CoE Assembly "mini-session" in Malta is now under way!

Watch LIVE here:
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More info:
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#46_parliaments

The Hungarian draft law on ‘transparency in public life’ must not be adopted, say PACE monitors Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Hungary, have made the follow...

The Hungarian draft law on "transparency in public life" must not be adopted, say PACE monitors @eeriknkross.bsky.social and George Papandreou.

Read their full statement:
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Poland’s presidential election: international observers - including the head of the 31-member PACE observer team Iulian Bulai - will deliver their preliminary conclusions at a Warsaw press conference today at 15h CEST.

Watch live:
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More:
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Stand by for the livestream of today's press conference in Tirana at 15h local time (and CEST) when international observers - including the head of the PACE delegation Simone Billi - deliver their preliminary conclusions on yesterday's parliamentary elections in Albania:

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Immediate release of @ekremimamoglu.com, mayors of districts in Istanbul and young people who have been detained for exercising their right to peaceful protest.

Six cities are in the running for the 2025 Europe Prize! Here's the shortlist, out today...

Ausgsburg (Germany)
Münster (Germany)
Birštonas (Lithuania)
Płońsk (Poland)
Gaziantep (Türkiye)
Vinnytsia (Ukraine)

Final decision on 8 April. More on the Prize:
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#Imamoglu #turkey #democracy

Annual report for 2024 on the execution of European Court of Human Rights rulings – key figures ⬇️

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#ECHR

We firmly condemn the unjust arrests of Ekrem İmamoğlu and other political figures, based on questionable allegations.

Such actions attack directly democracy and will of people.

People’s voice cannot be silenced through intimidation and arrests!

Full solidarity with @ekrem-imamoglu.bsky.social