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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...
