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Council of Europe congress urges release of Turkish youth delegate after Ankara visit
05 Sep 2025 23:13 GMT
… and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe on Friday urged Turkey to … as a youth delegate and human rights defender were protected under the … European Convention on Human Rights. “The answer to disagreement must …
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European human rights body denounces arrest of Turkish activist critical of Erdogan
05 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… Council of Europe delegation on Friday denounced the arrest of a Turkish human rights … March meeting of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France … delegation of the Council of Europe’s local and … Opposition parties and human rights organizations have accused …
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Council of Europe Warns Against Outsourcing Migrant Returns
04 Sep 2025 18:15 GMT
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On Thursday, the Council of Europe (CE) warned the governments of … as not to endanger human rights,” CE Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty … a precautionary approach, including thorough human rights risk assessments, the development of …
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Reflection on reviewers’ comments (Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights)
04 Sep 2025 14:05 GMT
… remained a member of the Council of Europe (CoE), thereby reinforcing our conceptualisation … and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) provided important mechanisms for … challenges of the Commissioner for Human Rights’ mandate especially in relation to …
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The Council of Europe and Russia Relationship: A view from Russian Civil Society
04 Sep 2025 10:38 GMT
… Russian civil society with the Council of Europe looked like: focusing on the … ground the values of the Council of Europe’s founding documents.
What is … so that human rights defenders and opposition politicians in the Council of Europe remaining members …
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Wau! Das gibt’s ja nicht! At last, Germany loses its rag with human rights court over ‘back door’ immigration
05 Sep 2025 01:35 GMT
… about the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), prompting a long article … the 1953 European Convention on Human Rights.
That Papier has now joined … all 46 nations in the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the …
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Russia and the Council of Europe: The troubled membership from the perspective of a Commissioner for Human Rights
03 Sep 2025 16:45 GMT
… the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights should … any effort by the Council of Europe (CoE) to re … his conviction that the Council of Europe had no raison … disappearances, persecution of human rights defenders and journalists, …
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Dousing the fire in the democratic forest: Lessons for the Council of Europe from Russia
03 Sep 2025 07:36 GMT
Could the Council of Europe (CoE) have done more … of the European Court of Human Rights, asking whether, in … disengagement with Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks and the … and reinforce” Europe’s human rights architecture, but more in spirit …
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Externalised migration policies ‘may lead to human rights violations’
04 Sep 2025 12:39 GMT
… to other countries, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner has warned.
Michael … In the absence of adequate human rights preconditions and safeguards, externalisation … four main recommendations to Council of Europe member states, acting individually …
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Germany’s former top judge under Merkel says overzealous application of human rights laws by ECHR ‘endangers the existence of Western democracies’
04 Sep 2025 11:03 GMT
… that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is undermining national sovereignty … that the overzealous application of human rights laws by the ECHR was … for consensus among all 46 Council of Europe states. Instead, he suggested that …