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PACE first part-session of 2025 (27-31 January 2025) Hearings and exchanges of views in committees/PACE network meetings and other events open to the public |
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Monday 27 January 2025 |
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Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy 2 pm – 3.30 pm Room 9 |
Exchange of views on The situation in the Middle East, in the framework of a report prepared by |
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Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination 2.15pm – 3.30pm Room 7 |
Joint seminar with the Nordic Council of Ministers on Calling men and boys into Gender Equality - How can parliamentarians be agents of change? with the participation of: - Mr Xavier Bettel, Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Luxembourg - Mr Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - Ms Ragna Árnadóttir, Secretary General of the Parliament of Iceland, Alþingi - Mr Gary Barker, CEO Equimundo - Ms Belén Sanz Luque, UN Women Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia - Ms Etilda Gjonaj, General Rapporteur on Violence against Women - Ambassador Pap Ndiaye, Permanent Representative of France to the Council of Europe - Ms Yevheniia Kravchuk, Member of PACE - Mr Wessel Van Den Berg, Equimundo - Ms Despina Chatzivassiliou, PACE Secretary General - Ambassador Therese Hydén, Chargé d’affaires a.i. of Sweden to the Council of Europe |
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Wednesday 29 January 2025 |
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Parliamentary Network for a healthy environment (Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development) 1pm – 2pm Room 11 |
Presentation by Mr Rafael Benitez, Director, Department on the Reykjavík process and the Environment, Directorate General on Human Rights and the Rule of Law, on The state of the work of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH), the timetable towards the adoption of the Council of Europe Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal law, the construction of the Environment Strategy by the ad hoc Multidisciplinary Group on the Environment (GME). |
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Elections Division 1 pm – 2pm Room 8 |
Launching event of the Parliamentary Assembly Network of Election Observers (open to the public). |
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Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination 2pm – 3.30pm Room 7 |
Hearing on Violent pornography, in the framework of a report prepared by Ms Laura Castel (Spain, UEL), with the participation of: - Ms Noelia Igareda, Director, Antígona Research group, Autonomous University of Barcelona - Dr José Luís García Fernández, sexologist, clinic psychologist and researcher on the impact of violent pornography on children |
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Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons 2 pm – 3:30 pm Room 6 |
Exchange of views on Artificial Intelligence and migration, in the framework of a report prepared by Mr Petri Honkonen (Finland, ALDE), with the participation of: - Mr Philippe Harant, Head of Unit - Strategy, Capabilities and Coordination, EU-LISA, Estonia |
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Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) 2pm – 3pm Room 9 |
Joint hearing on The implementation of judgments of the ECtHR by Türkiye, in the framework of a report on “Implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – 12th report”, prepared by - Mr Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş (Türkiye, NR), Chairperson of the Turkish delegation - Mr Alper Hakkı Yazıcı, Vice-Chairman of Human Rights Department of Ministry of Justice |
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Women@PACE 8pm – 10pm Parliamentarian’s Lounge |
„Networking among women diplomats and parliamentarians“ with the participation of female ambassadors and deputy permanent representatives. Co-organised with the German Permanent representation |
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Thursday 30 January 2025 |
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Parliamentary Network on the situation of the children of Ukraine (Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development) 1 pm – 2 pm Room 11 |
Exchange of views on The situation of children in the temporary occupied territories, with the participation of: - Ms Olga Altunina, Representative of the Ombudsman for the rights of the citizen affected by the armed aggression against Ukraine; - Ukrainian teenager who returned from the occupied territory. |
Committee on Political Affairs and Democracyand Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced PersonsandCommittee on Culture, Science, Education and Media2pm – 3pm Room 9 |
Joint hearing on Ukrainian prisoners of war, journalists and other civilians held in captivity by the Russian Federation, the framework of several reports, with the participation of: - Mr Maksym Butkevych, Human rights defender, officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, ex-POW, journalist - Ms Leniie Umerova - recently exchanged Crimean Tatar and civilian hostage (Ukrainian citizen) - Mr Yulian Pylypei, Ukrainian marine, Mariupol defender, 2.5 years in Russian captivity - Ms Nataliia Yashchuk, Senior War Consequences Officer, Center for Civil Liberties, Kyiv |