Poland and the Istanbul Convention
(CoE / Red) – The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Rik Daems, took a clear position regarding Poland’s withdrawal of the Istanbul [...]
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European Day for the Victims of Hate Crime
(CoE / Red) – Rik Daems, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has urged European governments to do more to crack down on online [...]
Europe must fight against sexual violence against children
(CoE / Red) – These days, the Council of Europe’s Convention for the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (“Lanzarote [...]
Poland: stop the hate speech!
(CoE / Red) – “Increasing attacks against LGBTI people in Poland over the past weeks and months must stop,” declared Fourat Ben Chikha (Belgium, SOC), the General [...]
Protect the most vulnerable
(CoE / Red) – “Despite the progress achieved in the last three decades in the prevention of torture and ill-treatment in Europe, significant and complex challenges [...]
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 [...]
As European citizens, we are entitled to state protection
(CoE European Committee of Social Rights / Red) – In a statement of interpretation issued today on the right to protection of health (Article 11 of the European Social [...]
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 [...]
How to cope with refugee rights during the corona-crisis?
(CoE / FRA / red) – Yesterday, the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees of the Council of Europe (CoE), together with the EU Agency [...]
As dangerous as the coronavirus…
(CoE / red) – Council of Europe rapporteurs Sunna Ævarsdottir (Iceland, SOC), Sir Roger Gale (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) responded [...]