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European Court of Human Rights judgments: Committee of Ministers examines implementation
The representatives of the 47 member States of the Council of Europe will examine the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights between 8 and 10 March 2016. This supervisory role of the Committee of Ministers is provided for under Article 46 of the European Convention on...
Europe must stop violence against women and sexist hate speech
Statement by the Secretary General
Human rights of refugee and migrant women and girls need to be better protected
For the first time since the beginning of the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe, women and children on the move outnumber adult men. While in 2015 about 70 % of the population on the move were men, women and children now make up nearly 60% of refugees and other migrants crossing into Europe....
Secretary General Jagland's statement on Zaman media group
Statement by Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland
New action plan to tackle transnational organised crime
New forms of transnational organized crime - such as trafficking in human beings, human organs or illicit arms, and smuggling of migrants - together with traditional types of cross-border organised criminality, require co-ordinated action at international level. The Council of Europe has adopted...
Human rights and business – new European guidelines
Human rights and business is the topic of a new recommendation to member States from the Council of Europe’s decision-making body, the Committee of Ministers. Building on the 2011 UN Guiding Principles, the new Council of Europe text provides more specific guidance to assist member States in...
Human rights in culturally diverse societies – new guidelines
How to ensure effective implementation of existing Council of Europe standards on freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association in culturally diverse societies? A new text from the Council of Europe’s decision-making body, the Committee...
Children rights: equal opportunities, life free of violence, safe Internet
The Council of Europe adopts new strategy for 2016-2021
Children’s Forum
1200 children of 45 school classes of CM1-CM2 of the Region Alsace, sponsored by the Association Thémis, worked on a project or an idea of concrete action to favor more tolerance and a peaceful living together. 10 projects have been selected and will be presented on March 3rd of this year to the...
Anti-torture report on Albania
Anti-torture Committee calls upon Albanian authorities to address poor detention conditions, prison healthcare services, and provide safeguards for involuntary hospitalisation
Blood antiquities
New Council of Europe initiative to combat illicit trafficking in cultural property
Protecting refugee children
Secretary General calls on member States to take urgent action
Guidelines to prevent radicalisation in prisons
The Council of Europe today issued a set of guidelines to its 47 member states to prevent the radicalisation of prisoners and people under probation, and rehabilitate individuals who have already become radicalised. According to official reports, some perpetrators of terrorist acts have in recent...
Jagland on migration: Europe-wide policy of door-slamming is not sustainable
Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has called for collective action on migration guided by common European standards. “We do not put the fundamental rights of a minority into the hands of the majority – especially at a time of heightened anxiety...
France, Georgia, Monaco: new country reports by anti-racism commission published
The Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission (ECRI) published today its country reports on France, Georgia and Monaco. ECRI is concerned by the increase of hate speech in public discourse, and by the growth of racist, anti-Semitic and islamophobic violence in France, the report says. The...
Anti-torture report on Greece
Anti-torture committee strongly criticizes Greek prison conditions, excessive use of police force
Turkey’s Constitutional Court Judgment in the case of Dündar and Gül
Council of Europe Secretary General Jagland has commented on the Turkish Constitutional Court’s judgment in the case of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül today: “I was glad to hear the judgment of the Turkish Constitutional Court today which found that the rights of Cumhuriyet newspaper’s editor-in-chief,...
Anticorruption report on Armenia
Council of Europe urges Armenia to step up corruption prevention among parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors
Belarus: PACE rapporteurs deplore new death sentence
Meritxell Mateu (Andorra, ALDE), general rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni (Italy, ALDE), PACE rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, deplore that for the second time since the beginning of 2016, a...
