The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe emphasized that non-enforcement or delayed enforcement of domestic court judgments has been “ a major and long-standing structural deficiency ” for ...

War and mass displacement heighten the risks of human trafficking, and children are particularly vulnerable to such risks. Furthermore, as children increasingly use the internet for education and ...

On 26-27 March 2025, 23 members of the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities (ICC) Programme met in Wrocław, Poland, to gain insights and practical knowledge on implementing effective intercultural ...

Steering Committee on Anti-discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion – CDADI. The CDADI steers the Council of Europe’s intergovernmental work to promote equality for all and bui ...

Healthy, just societies need to respect the rule of law, with clear and transparent justice, fair and independent processes, and safeguards to ensure that everyone is treated equally before the law.

An efficient,impartial and independent justice system, whose decisions are enforced, is an essential pillar of the rule of law and a precondition for the enjoyment of all fundamen ...

The prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, set out in article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, is an absolute human right from which there can be no derogation. Respect ...

Trafficking in human beings is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. The Council of Europe’s Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, which entered into force in 2008 ...

The Council of Europe has established two different mechanisms to combat money laundering and terrorist financing that work in close co-operation: MONEYVAL and the Conference of the Parties to CETS ...

The Council of Europe action plan on protecting vulnerable persons in the context of migration and asylum in Europe (2021-2025) provides a framework of measures to address the human rights challenges ...

The CCPE is a consultative body composed exclusively of serving prosecutors (unique in this way at European level), represents the various existing prosecution systems. This ad hoc committee is tasked ...

The Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (OHTE), set up as an enlarged partial agreement in November 2020, has the mission to promote practices of history teaching that strengthen and promote the ...