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Seminar
on the European Social Charter to be held in Belgrade (Serbia)
[19/03/2010] Following Serbia's ratification of
the Revised Charter in September, a seminar will take place in Belgrade on
24 March with the aim of providing information and assistance to Serbian
authorities to allow for a wider application of this instrument. This
seminar will be attended by two members of the European Committee of Social
Rights, Mr Rüçhan IŞIK and Ms Jarna PETMAN, as well as two adminstrators
from the Department of the European Social Charter, Ms Niamh CASEY and Mr
Gerald DUNN.
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Serbian
factsheet
25-26
March, Strasbourg Second meeting of the Committee of Experts on New Media
(MC-NM)
[19/03/2010] The MC-NM will consider possible
policy answers to issues of protection of human rights in the context of
social networking services and search engines. It will look into action to
be taken by the CoE as regards network neutrality and the guarantee to
access information. Finally it will continue working on a new notion of
media, to determine what kind of mass communication should nowadays be
considered media and what freedoms and responsibilities those media actors
should have.
Octopus
Interface Conference on Cooperation against Cybercrime (23-25 March 2010,
Strasbourg)
[19/03/2010] The Octopus Interface Conference
2010 will take place on 23-25 March 2010 in Strabourg. It will be launched
with a high-level panel on “Security and fundamental rights – what rules for
the internet”. The conference will focus in particular on the need for a
global capacity building effort to enable countries worldwide to cope with
crimes committed on the Internet. (More)
Agenda
Octopus
Conference website
Special
file on the Octopus Conference
Exchange
of views between the European Committee of Social Rights and Mr Skouris,
President of the Court of Justice of the European Union
[17/03/2010] At his 242e session on 15 March,
the European Committee of Social Rights held a exchange of views with Mr
Vassilios Skouris, Président of the Court of Justice of the European Union
in the presence of Mr Jean Paul Costa, President of the European Court of
Human Rights. (More)
242
Session of the European Committee of Social Rights
[11/03/2010] The next session of the European
Committee of Social Rights will be held in Strasbourg from 15-19 March 2010.
Agenda
Committee
of Ministers publishes decisions on execution of judgments of European Court
of Human Rights
[11/03/2010] The Committee of Ministers
concluded on 4 March its first special human rights meeting devoted to the
supervision of the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human
Rights. The decisions adopted directly at the meeting in some 25 cases or
groups of cases against Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Georgia, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation,
Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom have just been published. (more
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Bosnia
and Herzegovina asked to eliminate discrimination in standing for elections
Russia
asked to improve conditions of detention in remand prisons
Contribution
of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to the UN Crime Congress
(12-19 April 2010, Salvador, Brazil)
[11/03/2010] The contribution of the
Secretary General of the Council of Europe to the UN Crime Congress is
now available.
Contribution
of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Call
for applications for the European Crystal Scales of Justice Prize for
innovative practices contributing to the quality of justice
[10/03/2010]In 2010, the Council of Europe
together with the European Commission is organising the 5th edition of the
"Crystal Scales of Justice" Prize. The aim of the prize is to identify and
promote innovative practices in civil and in criminal matters, in respect of
conduct of proceedings, court organisation and general functioning of the
justice system. Applications must be submitted by 30 June 2010 (more).
European
Crystal Scales of Justice Prize
The
Committee of Ministers adopts a Recommandation on human rights of members of
the armed forces
[08/03/2010] The Recommendation of the
Committee of Ministers to member states on human rights of members of the
armed forces (CM/Rec(2010)4) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 24
February 2010 at the 1077th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies.
Link
to the Recommendation
Human
Rights Law and Policy Division website
Montenegro
is the 30th State to ratify the Revised European Social Charter
[08/03/2010] The President of the European
Committee of Social Rights, Mrs Polonca KONCAR welcomed Montenegro's
ratification of the Revised Charter on 3 March 2010, making it the 43rd
State Party to the Charter (and the 30th to the Revised Charter). She
commended Montenegro for its commitment to core social rights and noted with
satisfaction that the ratification had been helped along by good cooperation
between the Montenegrin authorities and the Council of Europe. Ms KONCAR
also expressed her hope that the four member states that have not yet
ratified the Charter (Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Switzerland)
will do so in the near future.
Table
of signatures and ratifications
European
Social Charter Website
First
meeting of the Ad hoc Advisory Group on Cross Border Internet (MC-S-CI)
[04/03/2010] The Ad hoc Advisory Group on Cross
Border Internet (MC-S-CI) met for the 1st time in Paris on 1 and 2 March. It
discussed the shared responsibilities of states with respect to the
preservation and reinforcement of the protection of the cross-border flow of
Internet traffic and the protection of critical Internet resources. The
MC-S-CI meeting concluded that a rights based approach should be adopted in
the examination of these issues and that consultation with stakeholders will
take place in EuroDIG in Madrid (April 2010) and IGF in Vilnius (September
2010). The report will be issued soon and published on the web site.
Site
web Media and Infomation Society
Workshop
to be held on decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights against
Bulgaria
[02/03/2010] A workshop organised by the
European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), the Commission for the Protection
against Discrimination and the Bulgarian Committee for Helsinki, will take
place in Sofia (Bulgaria) on 4 March 2010 and will be attended by Mr Petros
STANGOS, member of the European Committee of Social Rights and Mr Régis
BRILLAT, Head of the Department of the European Social Charter. The aim of
this workshop is the analysis of decisions taken by the Committee since
2006, in which Bulgaria was found to be in violation of the Revised Charter
(notably concerning Roma and handicapped persons and the rights to housing,
education, and to social and medical assistance).
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