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COVID-19, challenges to human rights and the danger of widening social divisions
Secretary General
11 May 2021
Strasbourg
In online remarks to the sixth annual Delphi Economic Forum today, the Council of Europe’s Secretary General stressed the ”proactive approach” taken by the Council of Europe to meet human rights challenges associated with COVID19. As 11 May 2021 marked the 10th anniversary of the Council of...
Democracy is in distress, finds the Council of Europe Secretary General’s annual report for 2021
Secretary General
11 May 2021
Strasbourg
The Secretary General of the 47-nation Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, has highlighted a “clear and worrying degree of democratic backsliding” in her latest annual report on the state of democracy, human rights and the rule of law across the continent. “In many cases, the problems we...
