|
|
|
|
Monday 23 April 2012
|
| Spring session: 23-27 April 2012 |
| PACE to hold an urgent debate on the situation in Syria |
|
| [23/04/2012] When adopting the agenda of its plenary Spring Session (23-27 April), the Assembly decided to hold an urgent debate on the situation in Syria as well as a current affairs debate on the the future of the European Court of Human Rights and the Brighton Declaration. There will also be an address by the Foreign Minister of Morocco and a debate on “Equality between women and men: a condition for the success of the Arab Spring” attended by Morocco's minister responsible for womens’ issues. Other highlights include a report on who is responsible for lives lost in the Mediterranean Sea, and a joint debate on good governance and ethics in sport and on the need to combat match-fixing. |
|
|
|
| Culture, Science, Education and Media |
| New update to PACE draft report suggests FIFA leadership may have known of backhanders |
|
 [23/04/2012] It is “difficult to imagine” that FIFA’s leadership would not have known of significant sums paid to certain FIFA officials in the context of contracts with collapsed Swiss sports promoter ISMM/ISL for World Cup television rights, according to the author of a PACE report due to be debated on Wednesday this week. (more..) |
|
|
|
| Spring session: 23-27 April 2012 |
| Minister Lidington urges continued cooperation on Court reform |
|
 [23/04/2012] Governments must work together in a spirit of cooperation to ensure that the package agreed at the Brighton Conference for reform of the Court of Human Rights is brought into the European Convention of Human Rights by 2013, UK Europe Minister David Lidington told the Assembly today. |
|
|
|
| Equality and Non-Discrimination |
| “Fighting discrimination against LGBT is at the heart of the our mission”, PACE General Rapporteur says |
|
 [23/04/2012] “Fighting discrimination against LGBT people is at the heart of the Council of Europe’s mission”, Håkon Haugli (Norway, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTs said when presenting the priorities of his mandate. “LGBTs should enjoy all human rights, and not different or lesser rights as other people..." (more..) |
|
|
|
| Spring session: 23-27 April 2012 |
| Syria: "We cannot remain silent in the face of such atrocities!" |
|
 [23/04/2012] In his opening address PACE President, Jean-Claude Mignon, welcomed in particular the decision to hold an urgent debate on Syria on Thursday morning. "Our aim, as ever, is to ensure that the democratic changes in the southern Mediterranean go off as peacefully as possible, with full respect for fundamental human rights. This has not always been the case in Syria, where there have been over ten thousand deaths and thousands of refugees – a genuine humanitarian disaster. We cannot remain silent in the face of such atrocities!" he said. (more..) |
|
|
|
| Spring session: 23-27 April 2012 |
| PACE elects its Vice-Presidents with respect to Luxembourg and Spain |
|
 [23/04/2012] At the opening of its Spring plenary Session (23-27 April 2012), the Assembly today elected its Vice-Presidents with respect to Luxembourg (Fernand Boden) and Spain (José Maria Beneyto Pérez). |
|
|
|
| Political Affairs |
| It is essential that the reforms maintain their momentum in Morocco, Luca Volontè declares |
|
 [23/04/2012] "The Parliament of Morocco was the first to seek and to be granted Partner for Democracy status. It therefore played a pioneering role in this field and paved the way for others. The Parliament must continue to assume this difficult but honourable role, ensuring that the political commitments and the reforms covered by Resolution 1818 (2011) are implemented in an exemplary way", Luca Volontè said at the end of his visit. (more..) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| FR |
EN | |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
