MONACO, le 5 juillet 2012 - Plus de 270 Parlementaires, issus de plus de 50 Etats, ont participé aujourd'hui à la 21e Session Annuelle de l'Assemblée Parlementaire de l'OSCE. A l'ordre du jour de cette Session, des résolutions qui porteront essentiellement sur les Droits de l'Homme et la sécurité en Europe, en Asie Centrale et en Amérique du Nord. «La Principauté est fière de recevoir cette session annuelle de l'Assemblée Parlementaire de

MONACO, 5 July 2012 – A report released on the opening day of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Annual Session highlights 18 new ways parliaments, governments and civil society organizations are increasing civic participation – several of them through use of social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The report, entitled sOcialSCapE, profiles case studies from 15 OSCE countries including Armenia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy,

Kyiv Post 5 July 2012 Rapporteur of the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and head of the parliamentary delegation of the Netherlands to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Coskun Coruz and secretary of the delegation of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Arjen Westerhoff visited former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Kharkiv hospital on Wednesday. They talked with

Kharkiv, UKRAINE, 4 July 2012 – One day before the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is set to debate a resolution aimed at improving the rule of law in Ukraine, Coskun Coruz (The Netherlands) today visited former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a Kharkiv hospital. The two met for nearly two hours, discussing the importance of an independent judiciary and prison reform in Ukraine.

Delegates registering at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco for the 21st Annual Session. MONACO, 4 July 2012 – More than 250 parliamentarians from 54 OSCE participating States are starting to arrive in Monaco for the 21st Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The Grimaldi Forum has been transformed into a centre for international legislative debate where lawmakers from Europe, Asia and North America will convene to debate major human

RFE/RL 27 June 2012 More than 60 members of the Parliamentary Assembly from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from 21 countries have co-sponsored a resolution to pull the 2014 International Ice Hockey World Championships out of Belarus. The resolution urges Belarus to stop harassing human rights activists; suspend house arrests; and allow an international investigation into allegations of torture in prisons.