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Access to official documents is crucial – let’s make it a reality
Commissaire aux droits de l'homme
1 December 2020
Strasbourg
People have the right to know what those in power are doing. This was the basis on which the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents was adopted more than ten years ago in Tromsø, Norway. This Convention is the first binding international legal instrument to recognise a...
Implementing European Court of Human Rights judgments
Committee of Ministers
30 November 2020
Strasbourg
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers will carry out its latest quarterly meeting to oversee the execution of judgments and decisions from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg from 1 to 3 December. Information on the cases to be examined in detail this week is available here....