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Safe digital environments: Pompidou Group’s advancing action on the mental health and wellbeing of children and youth online
Policymakers, researchers and practitioners from the Pompidou Group member States and internationally gathered in Vienna and online on 2–3 June 2026 for a thematic seminar dedicated to the topic of online and digital addictions....
Europe strengthens co-operation on drug policy and addictions at Pompidou Group meeting in Vienna
How can Europe respond more effectively to organised crime linked to drug trafficking, protect human rights, and tackle emerging forms of addiction in an increasingly digital world? These questions were at the centre of the 98th meeting of the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, held in...
Pompidou Group adopts new Guidelines to strengthen member States' response to drug-related organised crime (OC-DT)
The Permanent Correspondents of the Pompidou Group have adopted new Guidelines designed to strengthen member States’ response to Organised Crime linked to Drug Trafficking, while ensuring full respect for human rights.
First ever European Forum on environmental human-rights defenders from across the continent
Activists face growing pressure and personal risks in Europe today
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) publishes report on its 2025 visit to Liechtenstein
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) published a report today on its periodic visit to Liechtenstein, carried out from 7...
Romania: Reforming long-term care to safeguard rights and dignity of older persons
Country visit - The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, conducted a visit to Romania from 26 to 29 May 2026, focusing on the human rights situation of older persons living in long-term care facilities.
Parliamentary Assembly Rapporteurs raise concerns over upcoming EU-Taliban talks
Lord Michael German (United Kingdom, ALDE), PACE General Rapporteur on Migration and Asylum, and Maria Syrengela (Greece, EPP/CD), Rapporteur on The deterioration of women’s rights in Afghanistan: the need for a global response, have expressed alarm at the European Commission’s upcoming talks...
Italy should continue its efforts to preserve and protect national minority rights
Twelve historical linguistic minorities are recognised in Italy
Final report on migration action plan presented to Committee of Ministers
Council of Europe gives significant support to countries dealing with people on the move
Hate speech levels across Europe alarming, stronger action needed
Annual report 2025 by Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission notes increase in racist, anti-LGBTI and other hate speech
Committee concerned about the situation of ICC judges and prosecutors, who are subject to repressive measures
The PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, meeting in Tallinn, made the following statement on the coercive measures imposed on judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court : "The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) carries out a visit to the United Kingdom
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out its tenth periodic visit to the United Kingdom from 11 to 22 May 2026....
Parliamentary Assembly Standing Committee meeting opens in Monaco with reminders of the need to uphold the Council of Europe’s founding ideals
[En cours de traduction] A meeting of PACE’s Standing Committee opened in Monaco today, with a series of opening speeches which focused on the urgent need to uphold the founding ideals of the Council of Europe in ever more worrying times – and on the concrete steps which the organisation is...
Lasting peace and stability in Iran cannot be achieved in the absence of respect for human rights, committee says
The Committee on Political Affairs, meeting in Paris on 20 May, strongly condemned “the brutal, murderous and systematic repression of the protests” that began in Iran in December 2025 and the intensification of this repression since the beginning of the armed conflict in February 2026 with...
What are the implications for human rights in immersive realities?
Council of Europe conference explores the effect of XR on democracy
Council of Europe foreign ministers adopt political declaration on the ECHR and migration
Consensus text brings together national viewpoints and Strasbourg case-law
North-South prize of the Council of Europe awarded in Lisbon
Bragi Guðbrandsson and Rami Abou Jamous received the Council of Europe award for their commitment to human rights defence and promotion
In Chișinău, Parliamentary Assembly President urges states to do more to promote Convention rights to their citizens
PACE President Petra Bayr has welcomed the political declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights which was adopted today by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers – and urged member states to “talk about us” to their citizens so that the Convention’s role in protecting them...
Serious overcrowding and increasing proportions of older and women detainees in European prisons
Council of Europe’s 2025 penal statistics for the continent published
The fragility of human rights and the necessary strength of our determination
Statement at 135th Session of the Committee of Ministers in Chişinău, Republic of Moldova. President, Ministers, I join in condemning, without equivocation, the atrocities that continue...
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