Malta 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.

Lorenzo Vella, Ambaxxatur u Rappreżentant Permanenti ta’ Malta għall-Kunsill tal-Ewropa

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

16 March 2026

• Malta has recently launched a book, entitled Council of Europe Malta Presidency highlighting 15 cultural events and 55 policy events in Malta and Strasbourg during its Presidency of the Committee of Ministers (May-November 2025). 
• Ambassador and  Permanent representative of Malta, Ambassador Francesca Camilleri Vettiger:

For Malta, as a small country located between the north and the south, the west and the east, it was an opportunity to show that we can be a neutral and honest broker and able to advance dialogue and cooperation among the member states. We are natural bridge builders.     

• Read the book “Council of Europe Malta Presidency”
• Watch the video with Ambassador Francesca Camilleri Vettiger
• The Maltese ‘Presidency Anthem’ entitled ‘One by One’ can be accessed here.

3 November 2025

• A new collaborative space “the Malta Lounge” was inaugurated at the European Youth Centre by the President of Malta, Her Excellency Myriam Spiteri Debono, and Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General, Bjørn Berge. The space has been supported and refurbished as part of Malta’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers for the use of thousands of young people from across the continent who come to Strasbourg for youth-sector meetings, courses and study sessions in which to learn, share ideas and reflect.

5 May 2023

• Violence against Women / Istanbul Convention-themed conference in the Parliament of Malta, with high-level officials including the President of the House of Representatives