08.02.10 - Strasbourg,
The Committee of Ministers has just adopted a text recommending that member states no longer place children with disabilities in institutional care and instead give preference to community living.(>>>)
04.02.10 - Tbilisi,
Within the framework of the constitutional reform, a delegation of the Venice Commission visiting Georgia during 3-5 February 2010, meets with the State Constitutional Commission, President, Speaker of parliament, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission and civil society....(>>>)
03.02.10 - Strasbourg,
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing its Chamber judgment in the case of Klaus and Iouri Kiladze v. Georgia (application no. 7975/06). The applicants, Klaus Kiladze and his brother Iouri Kiladze, are Georgian nationals who were born in 1926 and 1928...(>>>)
01.02.10 - Strasbourg,
Thorbjørn Jagland participated on 29 January in the events marking the opening of the judicial year of the European Court of Human Right. This is a promising beginning of the year for the Court with the State Duma of the Russian Federation voting in favour of the ratification...(>>>)
01.02.10 - Strasbourg,
60th Anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights; 30th anniversary of the Pompidou Group; 20th anniversary of the Venice Commission(>>>)
26.01.10 - Strasbourg,
Yestaerday, on January 25 the 318-member Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Turkey, EDG) as its new President at the opening of its plenary session in Strasbourg (25-29 January). Mr Çavuşoğlu succeeds Lluís Maria de Puig (Spain,...(>>>)
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