Minorities and Minority Languages in a Changing Europe” in Strasbourg on 18-19 June on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the two key treaties of the Council of Europe in this area. More...

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted a landmark Recommendation on Gender Equality in the Audio-visual Sector in September 2017. This Recommendation acknowledges problems inherent in the industry from a gender equality perspective and invites governments to review their legislation and policies; collect, monitor and publish data; support research; encourage the on-going development of media literacy; and enhance the accountability processes. More...

The Council of Europe’s annual Conference of Directors of Prisons and Probation Services, to be held in Jõhvi (Estonia) on 19 and 20 June, will explore ways to improve the management of prisons and probation services, and the co-operation between them. More...

Today, in Strasbourg, in the presence of Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Ambassador Stelios Perrakis, Permanent Representative of Greece to the Council of Europe, deposited the instrument of ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (CETS No.210), by Greece. More...

Estonia, like many other European countries, should urgently address the human rights implications linked to an aging population. According to Eurostat, Estonia has one of the highest rates of older persons at risk of poverty and social exclusion in the European Union (EU). More...

The Council of Europe has launched a new interactive website highlighting the positive impact of the European Convention on Human Rights across the continent. More...

Representatives of the Council of Europe and the Turkish Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) have met in Strasbourg today for an exchange of views regarding the situation in Turkey and the involvement of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). More...

The Secretary General of the 47-nation Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, has warmly welcomed the agreement achieved between the Prime Ministers of Greece and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” on the name issue. More...

Today Norway became the 43rd state of the Council of Europe to have ratified the Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Lanzarote Convention). The Convention will enter into force in Norway on 1 October 2018. More...

The first stone of a new secondary site for the Council of Europe’s European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare (EDQM) has been laid. The new site will be used to store the EDQM’s portfolio of over 3 000 pharmaceutical reference standards, as an addition to those already in stock at the main building in Strasbourg. More...