Representatives of various Tajik institutions have participated in the Seminar on Council of Europe Conventions at the Council of Europe Headquarters in Strasbourg (France) on 19-21 September 2023.

The delegation was composed of representatives of the Executive Office, Ministry of Justice, General Prosecutor’s Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Committee on Women and Family, Anti-Corruption Agency, Commissioner for Human Rights Office, Union of Lawyers, Centre for Advanced Training of Lawyers and National Bank.

They learned more about the Council of Europe Conventions, their added value, modalities of implementation and the process of accession, enabling them to initiate, and possibly pursue, the work towards accession  in the future.

The seminar focused particularly on the Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), the Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Lanzarote Convention), the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons and the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings .