With temperatures expected to remain above normal until the middle of next week, the World Metrological Organisation (WMO) has warned that heatwaves will occur more and more frequently, until 2060. Read more
UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid told a special meeting to address the global food crisis that it is necessary to increase the climate resilience of food systems to counter the increase in hunger and malnutrition. Read more
The Council of Europe was represented at the Ministerial Ukraine Accountability Conference in The Hague on 14 July by the Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Christos Giakoumopoulos. The Conference was hosted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the EU Commissioner […]
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the signing by President Putin of the law on “foreign agents”, a decade shaped by the Russian authorities’ growing fear of critical voices from within Russian society. This law was the first of several legislative measures, including the law on “undesirable organisations” in 2015 and the 2022 “fake news […]
The European Commission has adopted a joint (High Representative-Commission) proposal for a new package of measures to maintain and strengthen the effectiveness of the EU’s six wide-ranging and unprecedented packages of sanctions against Russia. Read more
In 2022, the EU will add €120 million to the resources previously mobilised for AMISOM/ATMIS in 2021. The agreed support will mainly contribute to the troop allowances of deployed African soldiers to enable the mission to effectively fulfil its mandate. Read more
The right to abortion should be included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, MEPs urge in a resolution on the US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and women’s heath in the EU, adopted with 324 in favour, 155 against and 38 […]
It carried out ten country evaluation visits and adopted third round evaluation reports on six countries (France, Latvia, Malta, Montenegro, Romania and the United Kingdom). Israel became the second Council of Europe non-member state to accede to the anti-trafficking convention. Read more
The report comes in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It includes an overview of the trends in the EU as a whole and 27 country chapters looking at developments in every Member State since July 2021. Read more
Top UN-appointed independent rights experts have condemned Russia’s ‘continued and extensive crackdown on civil society groups, human rights defenders and the media’. Read more
