Down With Everybody (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, will carry out a high-level visit to France starting on Tuesday 20 May to assess a broad range of human rights issues including prison conditions, precautionary detention (retention de sûreté), juvenile justice and migrants’ rights. The rest.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
AUSTRALIA is considering its position on the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime.
A Fistful of Euros (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
In the latest twist in the long-running saga of the increasingly Francophone areas near Brussels but in Flanders, a Council of Europe delegation visited three towns where the election of Francophone mayors has not been endorsed by the regional Flemish government. The delegation sounded pessimistic and floated the possibility that the case could be subject [...]
Euractive (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The country hosting the EU institutions may soon face a monitoring procedure by the Council of Europe, according to human rights envoys from the oldest European organisation speaking in Brussels yesterday at the end of a fact-finding mission.
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Lesbian and gay activists in Moldova have begged the European Union and the Council of Europe to intervene after their attempt to hold a Pride event at the weekend was banned and then blocked by police inaction and violence.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
THE IRISH authorities will be automatically told of any Irish people who are convicted in other EU states under a deal to be reached shortly. The Garda can now get information about criminal convictions under a 1959 Council of Europe agreement, but it must go in search of it.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker today stepped up the Government's commitment to the global protection of young people, having signed the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. The signature coincided with the second anniversary of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). The Convention sets standards [...]...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
On Tuesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova, Andrei Stratan, had a meeting in Strasbourg, with Terry Davis, General Secretary of the Council of Europe (CoE), where he spoke about the achievements of the Republic of Moldova in the process of European integration, DECA-press communicates. Stratan went to Strasbourg on the...
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The leaders of all the major religions in Russia have written to the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights urging him not to support gay people's right to march.
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The Council of Europe plans to take action to help align the Turkish police's professional ethics with Europe's police ethics and human rights convention standards, a move that comes days after
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Foreign Minister Ali Babacan attended yesterday the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, in a speech Wednesday to the Council of Europe's Ministerial Committee in Strasbourg,...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Poland's Roman Catholic bishops on Friday released a statement expressing "firm opposition" to an April Council of Europe resolution that appealed to all 47 Council member countries to legalize abortion despite opposition from Poland and other members, Agence France-Presse reports. The Council in its April resolution called for all member states to guarantee the right to...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
More than 30 ministers from Council of Europe member states will meet in Strasbourg Wednesday. Foreign
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Terry Davis: the decisive test of compliance with Council of Europe standards will be the interpretation of the new article 301 by the Turkish courts.
