The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
IRELAND SPENDS less on its court system relative to national wealth than any other state in the Council of Europe. It also has the fewest number of judges per 100,000 population. However, its judges are among the best paid in Europe.
Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
October 10th is “World Anti-Death Penalty Day”—an annual event supported by world organizations, including Amnesty International, the European Union, and the Council of Europe. They hope that a certain few countries will mark the day on their calendars. The U.S., of course, still uses the death penalty, along with China, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Sudan. According [...]
Bosnia (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
On 30 September 2008 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a resolution on Bosnia-Herzegovina aimed at smoothing its future path towards EU membership. See: http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/AdoptedText/ta08/ERES1626.htm
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
An assembly of European parliamentarians has condemned the recent attacks on the organisers and participants of the Sarajevo Queer Festival by a homophobic mob.
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
BY MOLLY CORSO Georgian political experts and politicians are applauding the adoption of a resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe concerning Russia’s August incursion into Georgia.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
MOSCOW, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A human rights group says it received nearly 1,000 complaints of inmates begin tortured last year in Russia. Many of the complaints alleged police tortured inmates to get coerced confessions to boost crime solving rates, said the report from the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture. There also were numerous complaints of poor quality food, lack of medical...
International - Home (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Project for the Bulgarian national park supported by the Council of Europe
RHRealityCheck.org blogs (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The Council of Europe's recent campaign fighting violence against women has successfully reframed domestic violence as a human rights violation, not a private matter.
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
After Cameron's dramatic dash to Georgia, it turned out that the Tories were sitting in alliance with Putin's United Russia in the Council of Europe. A Tory spokesperson responded by saying they were pulling out - but they were fibbing According to Andrew Sparrow in the Guardian, writing on 29th Sept, But the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly is meeting in Strasbourg this week and, according...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Caucasus Press reports that the Russian Foreign Ministry intends to make Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and current chair of the Council of Europe persona non grata. The unconfirmed reports say t...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The Council of Europe has urged European governments to protect Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared of terrorist links but who risk persecution when they return home.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Georgian protestors turned up outside the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Thursday, to stage a counter-demonstration to a group of South Ossetians who have been there for two days. Both want Counc...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
(Adds details in last para) STRASBOURG, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe started discussions on Thursday on whether to refuse Russia the right to vote a...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Europe's top human rights body rejected a proposal on Wednesday to penalize Russia for its invasion of Georgia by suspending its members from the organization.But the Council of Europe's Parliamentary...
PJC Journal (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Government plans to enable police to hold terror suspects without charge for 42 days have caused “considerable concern” at Europe’s human rights body. But, the most important bit is in the summary, far more important than conditions in detention it seems to me, is this:
