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3 unusual facts about Council of Europe


EU Council

Council of Europe, entirely separate international organisation founded in 1949, headquartered in Strasbourg, France

Pavee Point

In 2003, the Council of Europe invited PP to attend two conferences as an expert on and representative of the Traveller community.

Stress and duress

Although not binding upon non-participating member states of the Council of Europe, this ruling is a useful indicator of international judicial views on the "stress and duress" methods authorised for use by the US administration.


Antonio Mario La Pergola

From 1990 he chaired the Council of Europe Commission on Democracy through Law, known as the Venice Commission, which has assisted all countries in central and eastern Europe on their path to democratic transition and today comprises all European states and many non-European states.

Antonio Mario La Pergola (13 November 1931, Catania - 19 July 2007, Rome), Italian jurist, Advocate General and later Judge of the European Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, President of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Assembly of Vietnamese Youth for Democracy

THTNDC also won the endorsement of the Belgian Deputy to the Council of Europe Johan Weyts, and René van der Linden, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in support of Vietnamese democracy.

European Forum for Urban Security

The organisation was created in 1987 in Barcelona, under the aegis of the Council of Europe and led by Gilbert Bonnemaison, former Mayor of Épinay-sur-Seine and co-creator of the French Crime Prevention Policy.

Florence Benoît-Rohmer

Her academic interest is focused on mechanism for the preservation of human rights both within the European Union and the Council of Europe, especially the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter.

Henry Maitland Clark

Clark chaired the Conservative MPs' East Africa Committee in 1963-65 and was a part of the British Parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe and the Western European Union from 1962 to 1965.

International Prison Chaplains' Association

IPCA-Europe is an associate organization of the CEC (Conference of European Churches) and is in contact with the Committee for the Prevention of Torture of the Council of Europe.

Inttranet

Launched after two years of development, with input from the heads of the translation departments of UNESCO, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament (freelance section), and professional interpreters and translators from 26 countries, the portal is currently (2006) available in 33 languages, but has been designed to be translated and interoperable in any other.

James A. Sharkey

As Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, he chaired the Human Rights Committee and defended the leading role of the European Court of Human Rights.

John Hume

In furtherance of his goals, he continues to speak publicly, including a visit to Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 2005, the first Summer University of Democracy of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 10–14 July 2006), and St Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 18 July 2007.

Max Sørensen

In 1949 he was a member of the Danish delegation to the London Conference on the Treaty of London, which established the Council of Europe.

Media Development Investment Fund

Other support for MDIF's work has also come from: Council of Europe, Eurasia Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

Pavshino

The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) organised a delegation to visit Ukraine, including the Pavshino Temporary Detention Centre, and similar facilities at Chop, Uzhorod and Mukachevo.

Political positions of Libertas

The Anti-Defamation League, United Nations, and Council of Europe monitor parties for use of racist, xenophobic and/or anti-Semitic discourse.

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children

In addition, the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg has passed judgments involving trafficking in human beings which violated obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Siliadin v. France, judgment of 26 July 2005, and Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia, judgment of 7 January 2010.


see also

Adinolfi

Gaetano Adinolfi, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Dick Marty

On 14 December 2010, Marty passed a report for adoption to the Council of Europe alleging inhuman treatment of people and killing of prisoners with the purpose of removal and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo, involving Hashim Thaçi, the Kosovo prime minister and former Kosovo Liberation Army political leader.

Europae Archaeologiae Consilium

The inaugural meeting of the EAC took place at the Council of Europe in Strasburg on 25 November 1999.

European Charter on Human Rights

The European Convention on Human Rights adopted by the Council of Europe which came into force in 1950, protected by the European Court of Human Rights

European Court

the European Court of Human Rights, an institution based in Strasbourg for the hearing of human rights complaints from Council of Europe member states; unrelated to European Union

European Heritage Days

In 1985, in Granada, at the 2nd European Conference of Ministers responsible for Architectural Heritage, the French Minister of Culture proposed that the project be internationalised under the Council of Europe.

European Human Rights Prize

The European Human Rights Prize, also known as the Council of Europe Human Rights Prize, was a human rights prize awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in recognition of outstanding contributions to the cause of human rights as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.

Fidan Doğan

The rapporteur for Turkey of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Josette Durrieu, also paid tribute in glowing terms.

John Clint Williamson

According to Dick Marty, a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and special investigatior for Kosovo's organ traficking issues, ethnic Albaninans and Kosovars captured Serbs and other minorities in Kosovo and exported their organs across the Western Europe and The United States.

Merab Ratishvili

In April 2011, Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, visited Merab Ratishvili in Rustavi prison No.6 as part of a visit to Georgia to report on the administration of justice and level of protection of human rights in the justice system of Georgia.

Monika Kryemadhi

During this time she was also a member of the Parliament of Albania from 2001 to 2005, and also was selected two times to the Tirana Municipal Council for which she was elected secretary of the local government delegation to the Council of Europe.

Political status of Nagorno-Karabakh

"These so-called 'elections' cannot be legitimate," stressed Council of Europe Committee of Ministers' Chairman and Liechtenstein Foreign Minister Ernst Walch, Parliamentary Assembly President Lord Russell-Johnston and Secretary General Walter Schwimmer.

Prix Europa

Set up in 1987 by the Council of Europe and the European Cultural Foundation it now has the backing of around 25 partners, including institutions like the European Parliament, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the European Alliance for Television and Culture and national broadcasters like Radio France, YLE Finnish Broadcasting, Telewizja Polska, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen or Österreichischer Rundfunk.

Simtest

It classifies examinees according to 6 levels of proficiency as defined in the Council of Europe document: “A Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages: learning, teaching, assessment” (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Zaruhi Postanjyan

In October 2013, when Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan addressed the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, Postanjyan took the floor to ask him if he had visited a casino in Europe, if it was true that he had lost 70 million euros in the process and where he had obtained the money.