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Covid-19 is worsening human trafficking – states should take action, warn Council of Europe experts
Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA)
9 April 2021
Strasbourg
The Covid-19 pandemic is having a worrying impact on human trafficking across Europe and states should do more to prevent it, according to the latest annual report from the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA). “The effects of the pandemic...
Europe’s imprisonment rate continues to fall: Council of Europe’s annual penal statistics
Council of Europe
8 April 2021
Strasbourg
The overall European imprisonment rate - the number of persons in prison per 100,000 inhabitants - fell again slightly in 2020, consolidating a trend that started in 2013, according to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020 (see also the Key findings). On...
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