Three candidates shortlisted for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2021
(CoE / Red) – Meeting in Prague, the selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – made up of independent figures from the world of human rights and [...]
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Il faut sauver le « Soldat Journaliste »…
(Strasbourg/Nicosie, CoE, Réd) – Les ministres européens responsables des médias et de la société de l’information ont convenu aujourd’hui de mener un [...]
Monaco: how people deprived of their liberty are treated
(Inès Tempel / CoE) – Based on a visit in all the places of deprivation of liberty in the Principality (Central Directorate of Public Security, Waiting cells in the [...]
Russia closes international schools
(CoE / Red) – The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Russia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Ria [...]
We cannot allow the home to become a place of fear, again
(CoE / Red) – Violence against women is a major problem in today’s society. Violence can take many forms and all of these are to be rejected. If days like today won’t [...]
Stop crime in the medical field!
(CoE / Red) – The Council of Europe MEDICRIME Convention will be presented at the Paris Peace Forum which will take place online from 11 to 13 November. The main message to [...]
Education is one of the solutions
(CoE / Red) – The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging our education systems and institutions, which need to innovate the ways in which we learn, teach and assess [...]
Turkey – Midnight Express 2020
(CoE / Red) – The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published the reports on [...]
Save the journalists!
(CoE / Red) – In a statement issued ahead of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić calls on governments to [...]
Covid-19 : Children need even more protection now
(CoE / Red) – For far too many girls and boys, strict confinement in times of the COVID-19 risks increasing their vulnerability to violence, including sexual abuse and [...]