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International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: detainees need protection from Covid-19
To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, held every year on 26 June, Mykola Gnatovskyy, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), and Malcolm Evans, Chair of the United Nations Subcommittee on...
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking: facing COVID19 challenges
“Drug policies must save lives and protect people, not stigmatise.” says João Castel-Branco Goulão on behalf of the Pompidou Group’s Portuguese Presidency, to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (26 June). “As new infections with COVID-19 are massively increasing...
Moldova should ratify the Istanbul Convention, improve its response to hate speech
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, has published a report on her visit to the Republic of Moldova in March this year – which included travel to Comrat (Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia) and Tiraspol – with recommendations on violence against women and...
Webinar on human rights of intersex people
The Council of Europe’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Unit is to mark Pride week on June 30th with an in-depth webinar on the human rights of intersex people, its first on the theme since its mandate was extended to include them, earlier this year. Discussions will focus on a study...