Human Rights
Often, women with disabilities are invisible and marginalised in society, including among those promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, and those promoting gender equality and the advancement of women,…
Council of Europe
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 of persons who are subjected to…
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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 to European governments in line with…
Council of Europe
A new report and resolution which was considered and adopted in the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe this…
Council of Europe
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 protecting the rights of “socially maladjusted”…
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El Consejo de Europa se encuentra en un grave dilema entre dos de sus propias convenciones que contienen textos basados en políticas discriminatorias obsoletas de la primera parte del siglo…
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe has come into a serious dilemma between two of its own conventions that contain texts based on outdated discriminatory policies from the first part of the…
Health
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, opened the Human Rights Council Intersessional consultation on Mental Health and Human Rights, on 15 November 2021. In addressing the panel…
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 the use of coercive measures in…
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 coercion in psychiatry. The instrument is…
