Newsroom
GRECO urges Turkey to ensure full judicial independence, integrity standards for MPs and transparency of party funding
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published two reports on Turkey’s implementation of its recommendations on preventing corruption in respect of MPs, judges and prosecutors (GRECO’s 4th Evaluation Round) and on incriminations and the transparency of party...
Cypriot authorities should investigate allegations of pushbacks and ill-treatment of migrants
In a letter addressed to the Minister of Interior of Cyprus the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović urges the Cypriot authorities to ensure that independent and effective investigations are carried out into allegations of pushbacks and of ill-treatment of arriving...
ECRI annual report: Covid-19 deepened inequalities, LGBTI backlash, growing religious intolerance and BLM
The Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission (ECRI) in its 2020 annual report published ahead of the International Day against Racial Discrimination on 21 March, identified four key challenges Europe was facing last year. These are: mitigating the disproportional impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
