Have peoples voice heard on how to improve the use of official languages at local level

April 2025

Over the past weeks, Council of Europe Office in Pristina, has been supporting our partners — the Ministry of Local Government Administration, the Office of the Language Commissioner, and the Ombudsperson Institution — holding a series of seven regional meetings focused on one key issue: the...

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Addressing Hate Speech: Training for Judges and Prosecutors in North Macedonia

11 April 2025 Skopje, North Macedonia

A key component of the European Union and Council of Europe efforts to fight discrimination is supporting public institutions in enhancing their capacities to address hate speech, including anti-gypsism as specific form of hatred against Roma and Travellers. To achieve this, 33 judges and public...

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Empowering a new generation of anti-racism trainers in Eastern Europe and Western Balkans

15 April 2025 Western Balkans

As part of its ongoing efforts to advancing anti-discrimination policies in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership regions, the Council of Europe launched a Training of Trainers (ToT) programme. This initiative brings together over 30 participants, including representatives from public...

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En Finlande, les organismes de promotion de l'égalité et les autorités de régulation se dotent de connaissances en matière d'IA et d'outils de lutte contre la discrimination

16 AVRIL 2025 HELSINKI, FINLANDE

Un total de 58 membres des organismes de promotion de l'égalité et des autorités de régulation finlandais participeront à une nouvelle formation sur « l'Intelligence Artificielle et la lutte contre la discrimination », qui se compose d'un cours en ligne de deux mois et d'une série de webinaires...

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Call for grants to support activities on combating hate speech in North Macedonia

14 April 2025 Skopje, North Macedonia

Within the framework of the joint European Union/Council of Europe Horizontal Facility programme and its action on “Combating Hatred and Intolerance in North Macedonia”, the Council of Europe is launching a call for grants “Support to local self-governments and/or CSO-s for combating hate...

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Finding safety and hope: One year of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first LGBTI shelter

27 March 2025 Bosnia and Herzegovina

"My stay at the shelter during the summer of 2024 truly changed my life. At the beginning of that year, I lost my independence. I was in an environment that did not support me, and looking back now, I realise I was searching for a way out. At a panel discussion, I heard an anonymous letter from a...

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Une nouvelle étude appelle à des informations claires, accessibles et significatives sur le déploiement et l'utilisation des systèmes d'IA par les administrations publiques

24 MARCH 2025 STRASBOURG, FRANCE

Une nouvelle étude appelle à des informations claires, accessibles et significatives sur le déploiement et l'utilisation des systèmes d'IA par les administrations publiques Une nouvelle étude évalue les cadres actuels – qu’ils soient juridiques, procéduraux et de gouvernance – en matière de lutte...

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Albania and Estonia share best practices on national minority rights

18-20 MARCH 2025 Durrës and Tirana, Albania

Representatives of Albania’s Committee on National Minorities and Estonia’s Ministry of Culture and Integration Foundation met in Durrës, Albania, to exchange their best practices on effective integration of national minorities and management of diverse societies. Hosted by the Albanian...

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Wrapping up two years of work to foster migrants’ integration in Italy: new tools and policy recommendations handed over to authorities

13 March 2025 Rome, Italy

The project Reinforcing multi-level policy coordination for integration in Italy came to its close with important results, which were presented and discussed in Rome on 13 March, during the project’s final event. A team of experts presented main project’s deliverables with a view to the way...

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Securing commitment to equality reforms by Ukraine partners

11 to 14 MARCH 2025 KYIV, UKRAINE

Between 11 and 14 March 2025, Hallvard Gorseth, Head of the Anti-discrimination Department of the Council of Europe, visited Kyiv for a series of meetings on Ukraine’s implementation of anti-discrimination standards related to its European integration. He met with Oleksandr Kornienko, First...

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