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Focus on womens’ rights as three candidates shortlisted for the 2020 Václav Havel Prize
Parliamentary Assembly
8 January 2021
Strasbourg
The selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which rewards outstanding civil society action in the defence of human rights in Europe and beyond, has today announced the shortlist for the 2020 Prize, with all three nominees involved in promoting women’s rights or gender equality....
Human rights at the heart of drug policies : the Pompidou Group's 50th Anniversary
Pompidou Group
4 January 2021
Strasbourg
This year we will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Pompidou Group. Created in August 1971 - on the initiative of the then French President - as a European cooperation framework to fight against drug abuse and drug traficking, it has developed over the years into an international group which...