Italy and the Council of Europe – bringing human rights from the conference table to your kitchen table

The Council of Europe works for you. We want to give visibility to the role, standards and work of the Council of Europe in its member states, to show how Council of Europe membership has helped achieve particular results or changes. Our aim, through a variety of events and actions, is to highlight ways in which the Council of Europe’s action has helped improve the life of individuals and contributed to improving people’s enjoyment of fundamental rights.

Michele Giacomelli, Ambasciatore, Rappresentante Permanente d’Italia presso il Consiglio d’Europa

Whether it is the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights at national level, or the Council of Europe's work in many fields, such as working to abolish the death penalty or to ensure freedom of expression and freedom of the media, or to adress online and technology-facilitated violence against women through the Istanbul Convention and Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, the Council of Europe has achieved a lot since 1949. View achievements »

Events

24 May 2023

• Seminar with regional journalists from Veneto

May

• Events celebrating the Council of Europe organised by the CoE Office in collaboration with the European Parliament Information Office in Milan, the European Commission Representation in Rome, the Municipality of Venice, the Municipality Europe Direct Information Centre and various local partners
• Series of debates in the format “Caffè dell’Europa”, in collaboration with historic coffee houses of St. Mark’s square, aims at involving citizens in discussions about European topics such as the future of Europe, equality between women and men or the rights and responsibilities inherent in democratic citizenship
• “Concert for Europe”. This event will be organized in collaboration with the Music Conservatory Benedetto Marcello
• Conferences, training courses for journalists, and book presentations

April

• Meeting of the Italian Faro Network

8 March 

• Event to celebrate the Council of Europe’s commitment to equality between women and men rights. 

23 February

• Book presentation, “The erased Italians' history” by Dino Messina (Venice)

8 February

• Public film screening, “The Zookeeper's Wife” (2017), a Czech-British-American war drama film directed by Niki Caro, written by Angela Workman and based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction book (Venice)

26 January - 2 February

• Exhibition “Righteous Among the Nations”, with the Yad Vashem Institute, Jerusalem (Venice)

18 January

• Book presentation, “History of Carla” by Carla Viterbo Bassani and Roberto Lughezzani. (Venice)

17 January 2023

• Laying ceremony of “stumbling stones” to commemorate victims of the Holocaust (Venice)

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• Workshop with author Matteo Corradini about the Righteous Among the Nations (Venice)
• Conference on antisemitism and hate speech in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University and the Italian coordinator for the fight against anti-Semitism  (Venice)
• A series of events to commemorate “Il Giorno del Ricordo” Italian commemoration of the Foibe massacres perpetrated by Yugoslav partisans and the post-World War II Istrian-Dalmatian exodus (Venice)
• Book presentation, "Diplomatic diary. A fiumano in Rome" by the Croatian Ambassador in Rome Damir Grubisa (Venice)