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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...
Death penalty in Belarus
Declaration by the Committee of Ministers
Lavrov, Jagland on Russia’s membership in Council of Europe
Russian Foreign Minister and Secretary General exchange letters on 20th anniversary
Anticorruption report on Bosnia and Herzegovina
GRECO calls for efficient coordination and firm steps to implement anticorruption reform
European Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Team from University of Cambridge wins 2016 edition of the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Terrorist attack in Ankara
Statement by Daniel Mitov, Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Ankara: Secretary General condemns deadly attack
Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, last night condemned the car bomb attack which killed at least 28 people and injured more than 60 in the centre of Ankara, close to the Parliament and military headquarters. “I am deeply saddened by the news of yet another deadly...
Sweden: Anti-torture report
Sweden should ease restrictions for remand prisoners says the Committee for Prevention of Torture (CPT) in a new report. Despite 24 years of dialogue with the Swedish authorities, there is little sign of progress concerning restrictions on remand prisoners. The risk of ill-treatment remains...
Belarus death sentence: Secretary General reacts
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, has condemned the death sentence handed down in Belarus on Tuesday 16 February. “The Council of Europe and all its member states are firmly opposed to capital punishment in all circumstances,” stressed the Secretary General. “As...
