Council of Europe Archives - FIBGAR Fundación Internacional Baltasar Garzón Thu, 29 May 2025 14:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://fibgar.es/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-v_vertical_sin_texto-e1585918866851-32x32.png Council of Europe Archives - FIBGAR 32 32 Council of Europe challenged to legally recognise the right to a healthy environment https://fibgar.es/en/council-of-europe-challenged-to-legally-recognise-the-right-to-a-healthy-environment/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://fibgar.es/?p=24758 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...

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]]> The adoption of the new Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law: A historic step towards environmental justice https://fibgar.es/en/the-adoption-of-the-new-council-of-europe-convention-on-the-protection-of-the-environment-through-criminal-law-a-historic-step-towards-environmental-justice/ Wed, 28 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://fibgar.es/?p=24723 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...

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]]> Council of Europe assesses Spain’s policies and measures to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence https://fibgar.es/en/council-of-europe-assesses-spains-policies-and-measures-to-prevent-and-combat-violence-against-women-and-domestic-violence/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:21:36 +0000 https://fibgar.es/?p=24303 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...

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]]> 45 years since the signing of the European Convention on Human Rights: Spain’s commitment https://fibgar.es/en/45-years-since-the-signing-of-the-european-convention-on-human-rights-spains-commitment/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://fibgar.es/?p=23879 In 1949, after the tragedy and horrors of the Second World War, the Council of Europe (CoE) was created with the aim of promoting the common principles and ideas of democratic states. To this end, the CoE was endowed with a political structure consisting of a Committee of Ministers and a Parliamentary Assembly, and it...

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