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Torsten Hjelmar

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Invisibility of women and girls with disabilities
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Human Rights

Invisibility of women and girls with disabilities

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,…

23 April 2022 · 7 min read

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

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…

22 March 2022 · 4 min read

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to address the rights of “socially maladjusted”
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Council of Europe

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 protecting the rights of “socially maladjusted”…

18 March 2022 · 3 min read

El dilema de derechos humanos en el Consejo de Europa
Council of Europe in Strasbourg. (Credit: THIX Photo)

News

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 de la primera parte del siglo…

26 November 2021 · 10 min read

Council of Europe’s human rights dilemma
Council of Europe in Strasbourg. (Credit: THIX Photo)

Council of Europe

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The Council of Europe has come into a serious dilemma between two of its own conventions that contain texts based on outdated discriminatory policies from the first part of the…

26 November 2021 · 10 min read

UN High Commissioner calls for mental health care to be based on human rights
UN News/Daniel Johnson UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. (file)

Health

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 November 2021. In addressing the panel…

16 November 2021 · 3 min read

The Human Rights problem of the Council of Europe
Council of Europe in Strasbourg. (Credit: THIX Photo)

Council of Europe

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 the use of coercive measures in…

3 November 2021 · 7 min read