Cyprus and the Council of Europe – bringing human rights from the conference table to your kitchen table

The Council of Europe works for you. We want to give visibility to the role, standards and work of the Council of Europe in its member states, to show how Council of Europe membership has helped achieve particular results or changes. Our aim, through a variety of events and actions, is to highlight ways in which the Council of Europe’s action has helped improve the life of individuals and contributed to improving people’s enjoyment of fundamental rights.

Πρέσβης Δημήτρης Χατζηαργυρού, Μόνιμος Αντιπρόσωπος της Κύπρου στο Συμβούλιο της Ευρώπης

Whether it is the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights at national level, or the Council of Europe's work in many fields, such as working to abolish the death penalty or to ensure freedom of expression and freedom of the media, or to adress online and technology-facilitated violence against women through the Istanbul Convention and Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, the Council of Europe has achieved a lot since 1949. View achievements »

Events

9 May 2023

• Conference with the participation of the ECtHR judge elected in respect of Cyprus

2 May 2023

• Press conference was held in Nicosia by the members of the Cyprus Delegation to the PACE, Mr. Nicos Tornaritis (Chairperson), Mr. George Loucaides, Ms. Christiana Erotokritou and Mr. Constantinos Efstathiou. The event, which was addressed by H.E. the President of the House of Representatives, Ms. Annita Demetriou, provided the opportunity to give visibility and inform the members of the press, as well as the general public, of the Cyprus Parliament's long-standing participation and multidimensional work in the Assembly.   

20 April 2023

• Lecture by the Cypriot judge to the European Court of Human Rights, Dr. Georgios Serghides, was held in Nicosia, on the subject of the internal functioning of the Court. The event, which was organised by the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus, was addressed by H.E. the President of the House of Representatives, Ms. Annita Demetriou and the Attorney General of the Republic, Mr. George L. Savvides. Ανακοινωθέν. Για την ομιλία του Δρα Σεργίδη πατήστε εδώ.

Tbc

• Essay competition for school children
• Women’s rights event around the Istanbul Convention
• LGBTI event - possibly linked to IDAHO on 17 May