Events

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) will publish its annual report for 2022. Based on the CPT’s findings during visits to member states, the report examines the prevention of ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty in the context of forced removal at borders, so called “push-backs”, and issues specific recommendations to governments. The report also contains an overview of the CPT’s work to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places where persons are deprived of liberty across Europe over the last year.

The President of the CPT Dr Alan Mitchell and its Executive Secretary Régis Brillat will present the report at a hybrid press conference at the Council of Europe office in Brussels from 10 am.

Contacts: (Strasbourg) Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42; (Brussels) Andrew Cutting, tel. +32 485 21 72 02

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) will publish its annual report for 2022. Based on the CPT’s findings during visits to member states, the report examines the prevention of ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty in the context of forced removal at borders, so called “push-backs”, and issues specific recommendations to governments. The report also contains an overview of the CPT’s work to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places where persons are deprived of liberty across Europe over the last year.

The President of the CPT Dr Alan Mitchell and its Executive Secretary Régis Brillat will present the report at a hybrid press conference at the Council of Europe office in Brussels from 10 am.

Contacts: (Strasbourg) Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42; (Brussels) Andrew Cutting, tel. +32 485 21 72 02

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) will publish its annual report for 2022. Based on the CPT’s findings during visits to member states, the report examines the prevention of ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty in the context of forced removal at borders, so called “push-backs”, and issues specific recommendations to governments. The report also contains an overview of the CPT’s work to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places where persons are deprived of liberty across Europe over the last year.

The President of the CPT Dr Alan Mitchell and its Executive Secretary Régis Brillat will present the report at a hybrid press conference at the Council of Europe office in Brussels from 10 am.

Contacts: (Strasbourg) Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42; (Brussels) Andrew Cutting, tel. +32 485 21 72 02

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) will publish its annual report for 2022. Based on the CPT’s findings during visits to member states, the report examines the prevention of ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty in the context of forced removal at borders, so called “push-backs”, and issues specific recommendations to governments. The report also contains an overview of the CPT’s work to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places where persons are deprived of liberty across Europe over the last year.

The President of the CPT Dr Alan Mitchell and its Executive Secretary Régis Brillat will present the report at a hybrid press conference at the Council of Europe office in Brussels from 10 am.

Contacts: (Strasbourg) Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42; (Brussels) Andrew Cutting, tel. +32 485 21 72 02

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) will publish its annual report for 2022. Based on the CPT’s findings during visits to member states, the report examines the prevention of ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty in the context of forced removal at borders, so called “push-backs”, and issues specific recommendations to governments. The report also contains an overview of the CPT’s work to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places where persons are deprived of liberty across Europe over the last year.

The President of the CPT Dr Alan Mitchell and its Executive Secretary Régis Brillat will present the report at a hybrid press conference at the Council of Europe office in Brussels from 10 am.

Contacts: (Strasbourg) Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42; (Brussels) Andrew Cutting, tel. +32 485 21 72 02

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) will publish its annual report for 2022. Based on the CPT’s findings during visits to member states, the report examines the prevention of ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty in the context of forced removal at borders, so called “push-backs”, and issues specific recommendations to governments. The report also contains an overview of the CPT’s work to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places where persons are deprived of liberty across Europe over the last year.

The President of the CPT Dr Alan Mitchell and its Executive Secretary Régis Brillat will present the report at a hybrid press conference at the Council of Europe office in Brussels from 10 am.

Contacts: (Strasbourg) Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42; (Brussels) Andrew Cutting, tel. +32 485 21 72 02

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) will publish its annual report for 2022. Based on the CPT’s findings during visits to member states, the report examines the prevention of ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty in the context of forced removal at borders, so called “push-backs”, and issues specific recommendations to governments. The report also contains an overview of the CPT’s work to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places where persons are deprived of liberty across Europe over the last year.

The President of the CPT Dr Alan Mitchell and its Executive Secretary Régis Brillat will present the report at a hybrid press conference at the Council of Europe office in Brussels from 10 am.

Contacts: (Strasbourg) Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42; (Brussels) Andrew Cutting, tel. +32 485 21 72 02

The Ministry of Education and Children of Iceland and the Council of Europe will host a high-level conference on “Investing in Children, the Key to Prosperity”. Organised in the framework of the Icelandic Presidency of the Committee of Ministers, the conference will focus on the benefits of investing in children as the key to prosperity for nations and individuals alike.

Keynote speakers will include Minister of Education and Children of Iceland Ásmundur Einar Daðason, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children Najat Maalla M’jid and Head of Advocacy and Campaigns of UNICEF Benjamin Perks.

The event will be moderated by the Head of the Children’s Rights Division and Council of Europe Coordinator for the Rights of the Child Regína Jensdóttir.

The conference will also feature input from specialists at the forefront of the implementation of the Prosperity Act in Iceland and will be attended by representatives of the Council of Europe Steering Committee for the Rights of the Child (CDENF) that will hold its plenary meeting in Reykjavik on 28-29 March.

The conference will be live streamed.

More information - Draft programme - Contact: Tatiana Baeva, tel. +33 3 88 41 21 41

in Human Rights Advocacy Competition, 38 qualifying teams, from a range of countries (Belgium, France, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Switzerland) will face off at the European Court of Human Rights on a mock case concerning concerning rule of law.

The competition, consisting of mock legal proceedings in French based on the European Convention on Human Rights, is open to law and political science students.

More information - ECHR Website, tel. +33 3 90 21 42 08

27-29 March, Tbilisi

Claude Kern and Edite Estrela, Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country. The main focus of the visit will be the recent political developments, the implementation of Assembly Resolution 2438 (2022), EU-related reforms, the fight against corruption and human rights concerns.

28 March, Strasbourg – The European Court of Human Rights will notify in writing three judgments concerning Germany, Romania and Switzerland.

More information - ECHR Website, tel. +33 3 90 21 42 08

28-29 March, London

PACE rapporteur Kamal Jafarov will make a visit to the United Kingdom in the framework of his report “UK reform of its human rights legislation: consequences for domestic and European human rights protection”. He will be meeting government officials, NGOs and academic commentators on UK human rights reform, as well as Human Rights Minister Lord Bellamy.

28-29 March, Strasbourg

Eleven recently appointed Inclusive Education Ambassadors will meet for the first time to discuss ways of promoting quality inclusive education and communication strategies to implement in the months to come.

The inclusive education ambassadors are Roma and non-Roma human rights activists, former students of segregated and special schools, teachers, school principals and journalists. They have inspirational inclusive education stories to raise awareness to both professionals and the public about the value and benefits of inclusive education and desegregation.

The seminar will be organised under the EU/Council of Europe joint programme INSCHOOL.

Contacts: Panos Kakaviatos, tel. +33 3 90 21 50 24; Tatiana Baeva, tel. +33 3 88 41 21 41

28-30 March, Paris

Anti-doping experts will conduct an evaluation visit to assess the French anti-doping system. They will meet with public authorities responsible for sport, including representatives from the Ministry of Sport, the French Anti-Doping Agency and the national anti-doping laboratory, the Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, sport federations and athletes, law enforcement representatives, and other bodies active in the fight against doping.

More information - Contact: Giuseppe Zaffuto, tel. +33 6 86 32 10 24

29 March, Strasbourg

The European Court of Human Rights will be holding the following hearings:

- Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others v. Switzerland (9.15 am), concerning a complaint by a Swiss association and its members, a group of elderly people who are concerned about the consequences of global warming on their living conditions and health.

- Carême v. France (2.15 pm), concerning a complaint by an inhabitant and former mayor of the municipality of Grande-Synthe, who submits that France has taken insufficient steps to prevent climate change and that this failure entails a violation of the right to life and the right to respect for private and family life.

More information - ECHR Website, tel. +33 3 90 21 42 08

29-30 March, Chisinau

The EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership will launch a capacity-building project for strengthening youth policy 2023-24 entitled “Shaping youth policy in practice”. Participating countries include Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Portugal and Ukraine. Cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder delegations will develop a national plan and implement it with guidance from mentors and the facilitators of the project.

More information - Draft agenda

Contacts: Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42; Tatiana Baeva, tel. +33 3 88 41 21 41

30 March, Strasbourg

The European Court of Human Rights will notify in writing 78 judgments and/or decisions concerning Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Türkiye and Ukraine.

More information - ECHR Website, tel. +33 3 90 21 42 08

30-31 March, Chisinau

Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić will pay an official visit to the Republic of Moldova.

Contact: Giuseppe Zaffuto, tel. +33 6 86 32 10 24

31 March-3 April, Sofia

A PACE delegation will observe the early parliamentary elections on 2 April, alongside the OSCE’s election body ODIHR. They will, among other things, meet with leaders and representatives of political parties and coalitions, as well as media and representatives of NGOs active in the field of election observation.