Kristīne Līce was the first Chairperson of the Drafting Group on Human Rights and Environment that drafted the 2022 Council of Europe recommendation on human rights and the protection of the environment. She also chaired the Steering Committee for Human Rights when in 2022 it became the first Council of Europe Steering Committee to decide to prefer the use of droits humains in the French version of its documents.
As a young diplomat, Kristīne Līce first visited the Council of Europe in 1994. She was closely involved in the process leading to the ratification by Latvia of the European Convention on Human Rights. In 2000-2002, Kristīne Līce served as Latvia’s first Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights. After returning to this position in 2012, Kristīne Līce revived the tradition of annual informal meetings of Government Agents from all Council of Europe Member States and hosted a meeting in Riga in 2013. These meetings are affectionately (and accurately) called “Agents Anonymous – Self-Help Club”; they provide an opportunity for Agents to meet their counterparts, share best practices, as well as mistakes, all of that aimed at helping each other to ensure the most efficient interaction with the best-know body of the Council of Europe – the European Court of Human Rights.
Exactly 10 years later, in 2023, Kristīne Līce once again hosted in Riga the Agents’ annual meeting, this time the first in-person Agents’ meeting outside Strasbourg after Covid-19 pandemic.
The project “75 women in 75 years of Council of Europe history” is organised by the Delegation of the European Union to the Council of Europe with the Council of Europe and the Permanent Representations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
