Ungeachtet aller Anstrengungen sind in Österreich weitere Maßnahmen erforderlich, um die von der Europäischen Charta der Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen (ECRML) geschützten Minderheitensprachen zu ...

The Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH), set up by the Committee of Ministers end 1976, conducts the intergovernmental work of the Council of Europe in the human rights field in the light, in ...

The Council of Europe Project “ Safeguarding Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Media in Ukraine” (SFEM-UA) is implemented ...

The Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) promotes sport for all, a sport founded on values and capable of bringing benefits to individuals and society in terms of health, social inclusion and ...

Trafficking in human beings is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. The Council of Europe’s Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, which entered into force in 2008 ...

War and mass displacement heighten the risks of human trafficking, and children are particularly vulnerable to such risks. Furthermore, as children increasingly use the internet for education and ...

Healthy, just societies need to respect the rule of law, with clear and transparent justice, fair and independent processes, and safeguards to ensure that everyone is treated equally before the law.

The Council of Europe has established two different mechanisms to combat money laundering and terrorist financing that work in close co-operation: MONEYVAL and the Conference of the Parties to CETS ...

The CDPC identifies priority elements for intergovernmental legal co-operation and proposes areas for action on criminal law, procedure, criminology and penology by developing standard setting, ...

The CCPE is a consultative body composed exclusively of serving prosecutors (unique in this way at European level), represents the various existing prosecution systems. This ad hoc committee is tasked ...

An efficient,impartial and independent justice system, whose decisions are enforced, is an essential pillar of the rule of law and a precondition for the enjoyment of all fundamen ...

The prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, set out in article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, is an absolute human right from which there can be no derogation. Respect ...