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PACE Committee hearing on Detention of "Socially Maladjusted" and the ECHR

Expert: ECHR article not in line with international human rights standards

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe hearing with experts held last week looked into the discriminatory ideology at the root of why...
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PACE issues final statement on deinstitutionalization of persons with disabilities

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The Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) review on the deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities acknowledged in a written...
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UN Committee issue recommendations for children with mental health problems in...

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The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child completed its review on the implementation of human rights for children in Germany. The...
Council of Europe in Strasbourg

Council of Europe considering international human rights in mental health

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Following strong and persistent criticism of a possible new legal instrument related to use of coercive measures in psychiatry, the decision-making body of the...
Council of Europe in Strasbourg, spring

Council of Europe finalizing stand on deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the end of April approved a Recommendation and a Resolution on the deinstitutionalisation of persons...
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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 continues

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

The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly unanimously adopted a draft resolution, as well as a draft recommendation...

Parliamentary committee: Refrain from endorsing legal texts on coercive practices in mental health settings

A new report and resolution which was considered and adopted in the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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