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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee interrupts visit to the Transnistrian region of Moldova
[30/07/2010 15:33:16]
Strasbourg, 30.07.2010 – A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) began a visit to the Transnistrian region (*) of Moldova on 21July2010. Against the background of the CPT’s reports on its previous visits to the region in 2000, 2003 and 2006, the intention of the delegation was to review the situation of persons deprived of their liberty in police and prison establishments.
Following initial consultations with Sergey STEPANOV, the person responsible in the region for justice-related issues, the CPT’s delegation commenced a visit to the remand section (SIZO) of Colony No. 3 in
Tiraspol
. However, on 22 July 2010, the delegation was informed that, unlike the Committee’s previous visits, it would not be allowed to interview remand prisoners in private. Such a restriction contradicts one of the fundamental characteristics of the preventive mechanism embodied by the CPT, namely the power to interview in private any person deprived of his or her liberty. Consequently, the Committee’s delegation decided to interrupt its visit to places of deprivation of liberty in...(more...)
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5th Summer University for Democracy: "The crisis of leadership"
[28/06/2010 14:24:37] Date: 28 June - 2 July 2010
Organised by the Council of Europe with the support of the European Union, the French Government and the local authorities of Alsace and
Strasbourg
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Description:Nearly 600 political leaders, civil society activists, journalists and business leaders from all of Eastern, South- Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus will meet in
Strasbourg
to discuss the developm...(more...)
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20 June 2010: World Refugee Day
[21/06/2010 09:58:53] Joint Statement by the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers and the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
EuropeOn the occasion of World Refugee Day, the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Miloshoski, and the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, re...(more...)
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European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Cyprus: how to promote the rights and responsibilities of parliamentary opposition, and the principle of non-discrimination
[11/06/2010 17:03:39] Speakers and Presidents of Parliament from the 47 Council of Europe member states will gather on 11 and 12 June 2010 at Limassol in , on the occasion of a conference organised by the House of Representatives of the
Republic
of
Cyprus
and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). They will look at good practice concerning the rights and responsibilities of the opposition i...(more...)
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Peace through democracy and democracy through law – 20 years since establishment of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe
[07/06/2010 11:05:10] Today 20 years ago in Strasbourg, on 10 May 1990, 18member states of the Council of Europe - Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey - established the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, formally called "The European Commission for Democracy through law".
I...(more...)
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Competition for journalists: A bridge across
[28/05/2010 14:45:50] “Confidence Building Measures between two banks of Nistru/Dniestr river”, a project funded by the Council of Europe
Chisinau-Tiraspol, May 13. A journalistic competition opens today for reporters from both sides of the Nistru/Dniestr river. Local, regional and national journalists are invited to submit media report proposals on cross-river cooperation activities, which they consider a...(more...)
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International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture
[28/06/2010 12:32:31]
Thorbjørn Jagland: “States must comply with Strasbourg Court´s interim measures to prevent cases of torture”
On the eve of the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture on 26 June, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland made the following statement:
“The absolute prohibition of torture and ill-treatment is one of the most fundamen...(more...)
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Reform of the Congress: Standing Committee to focus on priorities and working methods, monitoring rules and election observation strategy
[16/06/2010 15:13:31]
The Standing Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe will meet on 18 June 2010 in
Strasbourg , to examine in depth the proposals put forward by the Congress Bureau as part of the ongoing reform process.
The Standing Committee will debate a report by acting President Ian Micallef on the Congress’ priorities for 2011-2012, proposing to give a...(more...)
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Committee of Ministers publishes decisions on the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
[08/06/2010 16:34:15]
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concluded on 3 June 2010 its second special human rights meeting devoted to the supervision of the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The decisions adopted directly at the meeting in some 20 cases or groups of cases have just been published.
Link to the Committee of Ministers' decisions
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Council of Europe mediates solution to end constitutional crisis in Moldova
[04/06/2010 12:21:50]
Chisinau, 03.06.2010 – Today in Moldova, the four party leaders in the governing “Alliance for European Integration” (AEI) announced that they will hold a referendum to amend Article 78 of the Constitution (to allow for direct election of the President), dissolve Parliament and call for new elections. The referendum is expected to be held in the first half of September and new pa...(more...)
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