The Council of Europe Office in Baku has expressed its deep condolences to the people of Azerbaijan following the tragic ...

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, has expressed his condolences and deep sadness over the tragic ...

Often, women with disabilities are invisible and marginalised in society, including among those promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, and those promoting gender equality and the ...

Commissioner O’Flaherty held a consultation meeting on the human rights of Roma and Travellers in the Council of Europe area ...

Some developments in biomedicine have human rights implications that give rise to specific ethical concerns and make them particularly challenging. Public debate In this document and in Article 28 of ...

The objective of engaging the public might be to inform people about new developments in biomedicine, to stimulate debate or to lay the foundation for further consultation or participation, and to ...

In several European regions affected by past or ongoing conflicts, the achievement of human rights, democracy and the rule of law remains a challenge, with implications for reconciliation. The ...

On this page you will find an overview of the activities of the Monitoring Group of the Anti-Doping Convention (T-DO). You can also learn more about our groups' mandate and composition on the "Learn ...

Ensuring the uniformity of case law in Ukraine and the main challenges on this path were the key ...

Emperor Charles V was the great 16th century pan-European sovereign. Through inheritance, he brought together, under his rule, extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe and the ...

The European Social Charter is a Council of Europe treaty that guarantees fundamental social and economic rights as a counterpart to the European Convention on Human Rights, which refers to civil and ...

In a letter addressed to the President of the Senate of Italy, published today, Commissioner ...