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  • Integration of people with disabilities
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  • Children's rights – Building a Europe for and with children
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  • Combating discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity - LGBT

  Ensuring Social Rights

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• Democracy

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  Sustainable Democratic Societies

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  • Social cohesion - Council of Europe Development Bank CEB
  • Natural catastrophes - Major Natural and Technological Disasters EUR-OPA
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  • Cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue
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  • Cultural diversity - European Audiovisual Observatory
  • Cultural diversity - European Cinema Support Fund Eurimages
  • Intercultural dialogue - North South Centre

  • Education for democratic citizenship
  • Intercultural education - European Centre for Modern Languages ECML
  • Intercultural education and training - European Youth Centre Strasbourg EYCS
  • Intercultural education and training - European Youth Centre Budapest EYCB
  • Support to youth activities - European Youth Foundation EYF
  • Youth Mobility through the Youth Card
  • Sport and Ethics
  • Sport - Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport EPAS
• Rule of Law

  Rule of Law

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  • Justice and Legal co-operation
  • Efficiency of justice - Commission for the Efficiency of Justice CEPEJ
  • Efficiency of justice - Consultative Council of European Judges CCJE
  • Efficiency of justice - Consultative Councilf of European Prosecutors CCPE

  Common standards and policies

  • European Commission for Democracy through Law - Venice Commission
  • Crime problems - European Committee on Crime Problems CDPC
  • Prisons and Community Sanctions and Measures
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  • Legal cooperation - European Committee on Legal Cooperation CDCJ
  • Public International Law - Committee of Legal Advisers CAHDI
  • Freedom of Expression and Media
  • Internet governance

  Threats to the Rule of Law

  • Corruption - GRECO
  • Money laundering - MONEYVAL
  • Terrorism
  • Cybercrime
  • Counterfeiting of medical products – MEDICRIME Convention
  • Drug abuse and illicit trafficking – Pompidou Group
• Organisation

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  Institutions

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    • Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law
    • Directorate General Democracy
    • Directorate of External Relations
    • Directorate of Policy Planning
    • Directorate of Legal Advice and Public International Law
    • Treaty Office

  Partial Agreements

  • North-South Centre (Lisbon)
  • European Audiovisual Observatory
  • European Centre for Modern Languages (Graz)
  • Eurimages
  • European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission)
  • EDQM/European Pharmacopoeia
  • Pompidou Group
  • Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
  • Council of Europe Development Bank (restricted)
  • Council of Europe Development Bank (public) (Paris)
  • EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement
  • Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS)

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• 47 Countries

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Culture, Heritage and Diversity

Nature Multimedia Podcasts Bern Convention: English  |  French  |  Spanish ‘Emerald Network’ meeting of biodiversity experts Day 1 of the meeting of Standing Committee to the Bern Convention - 29/11/2011 Photos and cards Discover our photo gallery The Emerald Network in Central and Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus Videos Video on the occasion of the UN Biodiversity Decade (2011-2020) Promotional video on the Emerald Network

Home Meetings Week on the conservation of birds - 27 - 31 May 2013, Tunis (Tunisia) 1st Emerald Biogeographical Seminar for Norway - 18 - 20 June 2013, Trondheim (Norway) Useful links Calendar of meetings 2013 Multimedia Groups of experts Contacts Eladio Fernández-Galiano +33 388 41 22 59 Search Advanced search