The Council of Europe’s Democracy Innovation Award is given each year to the World Forum for the most popular democracy initiative presented in the Labs, voted upon by the Forum participants.

He is a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (Sweden) and the Generation Democracy network of the International Republican Institute (USA). Additionally, he was a Youth ...

Adam BARTHA, Director of Epicenter (European Policy Information Center), Brussels Adam is the Director of EPICENTER, a network of twelve leading free-market think-tanks from across Europe. He is ...

Brigitte TORLOTING, Vice-President of the Grand Est Region, responsible for cross-border issues, Europe and international relations ...

The "Guidelines for Monitoring of Detention Places" for the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Türkiye (HREIT) have ...

The Collective Complaints procedure was introduced by the Additional Protocol providing for a system of collective complaints, adopted in 1995. The aim pursued with the introduction of the procedure ...

A Council of Europe Regional Conference on Human Rights and the Environment in Southeast Europe took place on 17 and 18 October 2024, in Budva, Montenegro. It was organised in the framework of the ...

Head of unit “Policy modeling” at the Hans-Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf; since 2009 also professor of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Born in Moscow (1952), mathematician (Moscow State ...

Hate speech covers many forms of expressions which advocate, incite, promote or justify hatred, violence and discrimination against a person or group of persons for a variety of reasons. It poses ...

Effective co-operation between prosecutors and police is essential to protect journalists and uphold freedom of expression.

Despite progress, women’s and girls’ rights in Europe face setbacks and numerous challenges, including violence, ...

Europe’s largest minority, the Roma and Travellers, face multiple barriers to education, health, employment and political ...