At a critical time for the planet, marked by the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution, UN experts have urged Council of Europe ministers to legally recognise the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental human right. The negotiations focus on the need to establish a binding Additional Protocol to the...
April 3, 2023 marked the beginning of a paradigm shift in Europe. The first meeting of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law was established and took place. After more than a year of work by experts and stakeholders from the 46 member states of the...
Violence against women constitutes one of the most serious forms of discrimination and a fundamental violation of human rights: “its physical, sexual and mental consequences, both immediate and long-term, can be devastating”. In this context, the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) has recently evaluated the policies...
