Back ECRI holds its 96th plenary meeting and exchanges views on child participation in ECRI’s activities

Exchange of views with Cath Larkins, Co-director of the Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation (on the screen) and Regina Jensdottir, Council of Europe’s Co-ordinator for the Rights of the Child (second person from the right).

Exchange of views with Cath Larkins, Co-director of the Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation (on the screen) and Regina Jensdottir, Council of Europe’s Co-ordinator for the Rights of the Child (second person from the right).

ECRI held its 96th plenary meeting in Strasbourg, which took place from 19 to 22 November 2024.

On 20 November, ECRI held an exchange of views with Professor Cath Larkins, Co-director of the Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom, and Regina Jensdottir, Co-ordinator for the Rights of the Child and Head of the Children’s Rights Division in the Council of Europe.

As part of its sixth country monitoring cycle, ECRI examined its preliminary draft reports on Croatia, Latvia, Portugal, Sweden and Türkiye. It also adopted its conclusions on the implementation of its recommendations subject to interim follow-up addressed to Bulgaria, France and Greece.

ECRI also held discussions on the basis of the report made by its working group on relations with civil society and equality bodies.

In the context of Bureau elections, ECRI elected Tena Šimonović Einwalter (member in respect of Croatia) as 1st Vice-Chair and Irena Ilieva (member in respect of Bulgaria) as 2nd Vice-Chair. Cristian Jura (member in respect of Romania) was elected as Bureau member. The terms of office of the newly elected Vice-Chairs (one year) and Bureau member (two years) will begin on 1 January 2025.

In the course of the plenary meeting, ECRI held discussions on Council of Europe standards on artificial intelligence and on future anti-racism communication. It also took note of the statement made by Petra Bayr, observer in respect of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and Clarence Lusane, observer in respect of the United States of America.


Future members of the ECRI Bureau (from left to right): Tena Šimonović Einwalter (newly elected Vice-Chair), Jens Vedsted-Hansen, Bertil Cottier, Irena Ilieva (re-elected Vice-Chair), (on the upper row from left to right) Cristian Jura (newly elected member) and Nihal Eminoğlu. (NB: Els Keytsman, Bureau member, does not appear on the picture).

Strasbourg 25 November 2024
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