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Azerbaijan media law: overregulation in an already restrictive environment

Venice Commission 20 June 2022 Strasbourg

In the context of an already extremely confined space for independent journalism and media in Azerbaijan, the new media Law in Azerbaijan will have a “chilling effect”, said the Council of Europe’s body of constitutional legal experts, the Venice Commission, in its joint opinion together with the...

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Secretary General welcomes Ukrainian Parliament’s approval of Istanbul Convention

Secretary General 20 June 2022 Strasbourg

Council of Europe Secretary General, Marija Pejčinović Burić, has made the following statement today: “As women and girls are particularly vulnerable during the conflict, I warmly welcome the approval by the Ukrainian Parliament of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating...

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PACE President urges members not to get used to the war in Ukraine

Parliamentary Assembly Session 20 June 2022 Strasbourg

In his opening speech of the PACE summer session, President Tiny Kox invited members to hold a minute of silence for all the victims of the war in Ukraine, urging them to help end the suffering of the Ukrainian people and to continue showing solidarity. “This horrible war should never become a...

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