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The Council of Europe Office in Azerbaijan invites students of Law Faculties and young people working in a law sphere to participate in the training seminars on the standards of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The ...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, will carry out a follow-up mission to the areas affected by the South Ossetia conflict, from 25 to 28 September. “The aim of my visit is to assess the ...

An urgent debate on the consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia will be the main focus of the autumn session (*) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), to be held in Strasbourg from 29 ...

The five-member pre-election delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (*) has noted improvements that should create conditions for a good election. Those improvements took account of a number of recommendations made by the Venice Commission of ...

The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers will hold its third  special "human rights" meeting of 2008 from 17 to 18 September. The Committee will supervise the adoption of individual measures needed to erase the consequences for applicants of violations ...

On 15 September Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb of Finland and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt of Sweden met in Brussels as chairs of the OSCE and of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe respectively together with the Secretary ...

A five-member delegation of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly consisting of one representative for each of the five political groups and headed by Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD) will be visiting Azerbaijan from 15 to 18 September 2008 in the ...

"The new agreement on the withdrawal of Russian forces to pre-7 August positions brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the name of the EU Presidency is a step in the right direction. It is now essential to continue searching ...

“A first parliamentary debate on the conflict between Georgia and Russia took place during the meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Paris on 5 September. This meeting was exceptional in that ...

On 8 August the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg released his special report on the human rights situation in the areas affected by the South Ossetia conflict. ”This is a humanitarian disaster” he said. ”The conflict ...