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Call for tenders: local consultancy in the Eastern Partnership countries on an anti-discrimination project
The Council of Europe is currently implementing and until 31 December 2021 a Project on strengthening access to justice through non-judicial redress for victims of discrimination, hate crime and hate speech in the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of...
Death penalty should be abolished in Belarus
How to work with public opinion with a view to inform its views on the death penalty and the necessity for its abolition was the theme of the conference which took place in Minsk on 27 August 2019. The event was the result of the thorough dialogue the Council of Europe has had with the Belarusian...
The 2019 Help Network Conference "HELP: Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of The Council of Europe" is taking place in Strasbourg on 4-5 July 2019.
The European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) of the Council of Europe aims at assisting legal professionals to effectively apply the European human rights standards in their daily work. The HELP Network is the only European peer-to-peer human rights training...
Venice Commission: the dissolution of parliament in the Republic of Moldova did not meet the required conditions
At its 2019 June plenary session, the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) adopted an opinion on the recent situation in the Republic of Moldova from a constitutional point of view, including on the conditions for the dissolution of parliament. The Venice Commission...
Venice Commission endorsed an urgent opinion on the selection and appointment of supreme court judges in Georgia
The Venice Commission, in its urgent opinion for Georgia on the Selection and appointment of Supreme Court judges, endorsed during its Plenary Session on 21-22 June in Venice, concluded that the lifetime appointment (up to retirement) of 18 to 20 new Supreme Court judges by the current majority...
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