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Drafting group of ADI-ROM started work on a Recommendation on equality for Roma and Traveller women and girls
During its fifth meeting on 17-18 May 2022, the Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (ADI-ROM) decided to set up a drafting group for the elaboration of a draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to the member States on equality for Roma and Traveller women and girls. The...
Council of Europe proposes a comprehensive legal and policy framework to combat hate speech
The Council of Europe has issued a set of guidelines to its 46 member states aimed at preventing and combating hate speech, both online and offline. In a Recommendation adopted during its annual session held in Turin, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers calls on governments to develop...
Seminar on “Early intervention on Intersex Children – Promoting the Rights of the Child”
Seminar on “Early intervention on Intersex Children – Promoting the Rights of the Child” will take place online on 31 May 2022 (09:30 – 17:00 CEST) with the participation of the Chair of the CDADI, Triantafillos Loukarelis. The event is organised by the Steering Committee for Human Rights in...
LGBTI rights in Ukraine conflict in focus at Cyprus conference
The IDAHOT + Forum 2022 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus, on 12-13 May, ahead of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Tuesday 17 May. Speaking during the discussion War in Ukraine: Challenges to our Common European Values Through the Experiences of LGBTI+...
The Committee of Ministers adopts a landmark legal standard on multilevel policies and governance for intercultural integration
Strasbourg, 6 April 2022: The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted by consensus Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)10 on multilevel policies and governance for intercultural integration. This is the second international standard in this field following the adoption back in 2015 of...
CDADI observations on the consequences of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine
Roma, 17 March 2022 - The Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion (CDADI) refers to the statement of the leaders of the Council of Europe condemning in the strongest possible terms the unprovoked aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, an unjustified...
Promoting equality and combatting discrimination
In the framework of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, a high-level event on promoting equality and combatting all forms of discrimination will be organised in Rome on 17 March 2022 by the Italian authorities at the fifth meeting of the Steering Committee on...
The Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity, and Inclusion (CDADI) will hold its fifth meeting
In the framework of the Italian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, members, participants, and observers of the Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity, and Inclusion (CDADI) will meet in Rome on 15-17 March 2022. At the fifth meeting, the members...
The participation of the Russian Federation in the CDADI suspended
On 2 March 2022, the Committee of Ministers adopted the Resolution CM/Res(2022)1 on legal and financial consequences of the suspension of the Russian Federation from its rights of representation in the Council of Europe, confirming its decision on the situation in Ukraine of 25 February 2022...
CDADI´s new Terms of Reference (2022-2025)
The Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe adopted the new Terms of Reference (ToR) of the Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity, and Inclusion (CDADI) and its substructures for the years 2022-2025. The CDADI is tasked to steer the work of three expert committees and two...

- Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (ADI-ROM)
- Committee of Experts on Hate Crime (PC/ADI-CH)
- Committee of Experts on Intercultural Integration of Migrants (ADI-INT)
