Childrens’ Forum “Children, actors of Citizenship”

Strasbourg 21 May 2019
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In the framework of the World Forum for Democracy, the Directorate General of Democracy will organise the third edition of the Childrens’ Forum “Children, actors of Citizenship”.

Pupils aged 8-10 will present respectively from ten initiatives based upon the 2018 World Forum for Democracy theme “Gender equality” and upon living together at school.

The initiatives presented in the form of a play, a song or a video, will allow the children to express themselves, to present innovative ideas to improve the implementation of standards on children’s rights and encourage the development of civic participation of youngsters.

Contact: Estelle Steiner, tel. +33 3 88 41 33 35


Conference on the use of technology in managing offenders in prisons and probation - SPACE II report on persons under the supervision of probation agencies in Europe in 2018

Ayia Napa (Cyprus) 21-22 May 2019
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The Annual Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services will discuss the advantages and the risks of using new technologies in the management of suspects and offenders. Ionas Nicolaou, Minister of Justice and Public Order of Cyprus, and Jan Kleijssen, Director of Information Society and Action against Crime of the Council of Europe, will speak at the opening.

On 21 May the Council of Europe will publish its annual survey on persons under the supervision of Probation Agencies in Europe for 2018 (SPACE II), which will be presented at the conference by Professor Marcelo Aebi, from the University of Lausanne. The report contains information provided by 41 probation agencies. The conference is open to the media. The opening session (21 May from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) and the closing session (22 May from 13:30 p.m. to 17:00 p.m.) will be webcast live.

Programme  Contact: Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42


Other events

21 May, Strasbourg

Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland will participate in the opening meeting of the Heads of Office of the Council of Europe.

Contact: Daniel Höltgen, tel. +33 6 68 29 87 51

21 May, Strasbourg

The European Court of Human Rights will notify in writing 11 judgments concerning Belgium, Lithuania, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.

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

23 May, Strasbourg

The European Court of Human Rights will notify in writing 59 judgments and/or decisions concerning Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Turkey.

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

24 May, Strasbourg

The conference “Women’s Rights at the Crossroads: Strengthening International Co-operation to Close the Gap between Legal Frameworks and their Implementation” will focus on improving efforts to end violence against women, which is a violation of women’s human rights and a major obstacle to gender equality. Expected to open the conference, which will be held in French and will be open to media, are Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland, French Minister of State for Gender Equality and the Fight against Discrimination Marlène Schiappa, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Dubravka Šimonović, President of the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) Feride Acar, and Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatović.

The conference, which will be held in French, will be open to the press (Agora building, room G03)

Programme - More information

Contact: Panos Kakaviatos, tel. +33 3 90 21 50 27

24 May, Paris

The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) will meet under the French Chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers.

The meeting will be open to the press from 9.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. (French National Assembly (Lamartine room).

Requests for accreditation should be made online by noon on Monday 20 May (accreditation form).

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