In a joint statement, the chair of the Council of Europe’s data protection Convention 108 committee, Alessandra Pierucci, and the Council of Europe’s Data Protection...
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The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published guidelines addressed to its 50 member states aimed at preventing corruption in the...
The question of whether the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia produced significant reforms, goes into determining their...
“Do you think that a staged rally dedicated to Georgia’s presidency of the Council of Europe, with thousands of state employees brought in from the regions to...
“No progress has been made” in Azerbaijan regarding the protection of freedom of expression, since local journalists and social media activists, who express...
Slovakia has again refused to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women. “Today’s decision by the Slovak Parliament, rejecting...
Twelve Georgian non-governmental and human rights organisations have called on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE), Dunja Mijatović, the CoE...
Council of Europe (COE) Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić (pictured above) has reiterated the importance of the Budapest Convention, the only legally-binding...
Gianni Buquicchio, the president of the Venice Commission, an advisory body to the Council of Europe, has called on Armenia’s public institutions “to exercise restraint...
The Venice Commission, an advisory institution to the Council of Europe, the continent’s largest human rights NGO, has given the green light to the Armenian government’s...
The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO has called on the authorities of the Republic of Moldova to step up their efforts to implement measures aimed at...
“Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan continues to be under threat,” said Dunja Mijatović (pictured above), the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights...