Today, there is widespread appreciation of the essential importance of protecting and preserving the rule of law state; of ensuring that our societies are ruled in full conformity with law that itself ...

Attacks against the human rights of LGBTI people are assaults on the rule of law. It is time to push back. The Commissioner gave today the following speech at the Opening Plenary Session of IDAHOT+ ...

On 19 May 2025 the first Steering Committee meeting of the Council of Europe project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase IV” was held in Kyiv.

Elsewhere on day three, speakers from Ukraine, Latvia, and Taiwan examined information-psychological operations, including cultural manipulation through so-called “prophecies” - false predictive ...

A special consultative session with media editors from Bosnia and Herzegovina took place in Sarajevo, focusing on the visibility and social inclusion of Roma communities, the portrayal of Roma-related ...

Our project, in collaboration with the Justice Academy, successfully facilitated the workshop on “Use of and Reference to the Caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Reasoning ...

Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on the situation of children of Ukraine, Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjord Gylfadóttir, has addressed the Committee of Ministers of the Council ...

On 13-14 May 2025, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Intercultural Inclusion (ADI‑INT) met in Strasbourg and advanced in its work on preparing guidance, tools and policies to foster ...

As many of you know, our Directorate was established in January 2024, following the Fourth Summit of the Council of Europe Heads of State and Government. Its creation was a direct response to the ...

It helps me guide my efforts in my role as Special Envoy on the Situation of the Children of Ukraine for the Council of Europe. And as we all have an ambition in our own roles to make it count - I ...

Good Governance – the responsible conduct of public affairs and management of public resources – is encapsulated in the Council of Europe 12 Principles of Good Governance. Adopted in 2008 as part of ...

Physical violence includes beating, burning, kicking, punching, biting, maiming or killing, or the use of objects or weapons. Some classifications also include human trafficking and slavery in the ...