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New UN report stress urgent need for systemic reform of psychiatry

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A new report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights debated in the UNs Human Rights Council this week stresses the urgent need...
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Council of Europe in a divided position on human rights

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The permanent representatives in the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe Wednesday decided to move ahead on a review process collecting another...
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Council of Europe Assembly adopts resolution on deinstitutionalisation

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a Recommendation and a Resolution on the deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities. Both of these...
Council of Europe Commissioner on Human Rights speaking to PACE

Commissioner: Human rights are being undermined

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The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, presented her annual report 2021 to the Parliamentary Assembly during the Assembly’s Spring Session...
Invisibility of women and girls with disabilities

Invisibility of women and girls with disabilities

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Often, women with disabilities are invisible and marginalised in society, including among those promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, and those promoting gender...
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Council of Europe: The battle for human rights in mental health...

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The decision-making body of the Council has started its review process of a controversial drafted text that aim at protecting human rights and dignity...
Council of Europe parliamentary committee: Step up deinstitutionalization of persons with disabilities

Council of Europe parliamentary committee: Step up deinstitutionalization of persons with...

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The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly unanimously adopted a draft resolution, as well as a draft recommendation...
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Parliamentary committee: Refrain from endorsing legal texts on coercive practices in...

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A new report and resolution which was considered and adopted in the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly...
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to address the rights of “socially maladjusted”

The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Thursday 17 March tabled a motion aimed at...

Council of Europe’s human rights dilemma

The Council of Europe has come into a serious dilemma between two of its own conventions that contain texts based on outdated discriminatory policies...

El dilema de derechos humanos en el Consejo de Europa

El Consejo de Europa se encuentra en un grave dilema entre dos de sus propias convenciones que contienen textos basados en políticas discriminatorias obsoletas...

UN High Commissioner calls for mental health care to be based on human rights

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, opened the Human Rights Council Intersessional consultation on Mental Health and Human Rights, on 15...

The Human Rights problem of the Council of Europe

In a surprise move, the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe shoved the hot potato of the possible new legal instrument on...

International Shock: A Eugenics Ghost is still alive and kicking around in the Council of Europe

The Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe over the last years has been preparing a new legal instrument on the use of...

The European Convention on Human Rights designed to authorize Eugenics caused legislation

Human rights according to the United Nations, are rights we have simply because we exist as human beings – they are not granted by...

The Old World and the selection of those who does not have the rights to liberty and security of person

The European Convention on Human Rights was drafted by groups and experts within the forming Council of Europe in 1949-1950, based on an earlier...

Human Rights are basic inalienable rights, but not a static thing

The European Convention of Human Rights, lists out basic rights and freedoms which can never be breached by the States, that have ratified the...

An overview of the European Convention on Human Rights

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is widely recognized as an important and effective international treaty for human rights protection. It has had...
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