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The comment by the Commissioner for Human Rights deliberates on State's obligations related to human rights and the environment nexus.
The Council of Europe bodies overseeing the implementation of…
The ECHR held unanimously that the right to respect for private and family life (art. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights) and the right for protection of property (art. 1 of Protocol No. 1…
The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers adopted a Recommendation on e-democracy (CM/Rec(2009)1) offers all European governments substantial guidelines and principles when dealing with e-…
Since the inception of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the Council of Europe, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)…
The 2008 session of the Council of Europe’s Forum for the Future of Democracy was held in Madrid from 15 to 17 October 2008. The main theme was “e-democracy”. Six parallel workshops dealed with the…
NGO representatives from Belarus, Poland, Russia and neighbouring countries adopted this resolution committing themselves, among other things, to developing the Baltic Black Sea Civic Space,…
This speech by Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe to the second Internet Governance Forum (IGF, Rio de Janeiro, 12 November 2007), recounts how the UNECE…
This powerpoint presentation outlines the Council's recommendation on e-voting developed under the project "Making democratic institutions work". Among its key assumptions, e-voting…
Held in Strasbourg, 23-24 April 2007, the Symposium explored new opportunities for enhancing civic participation through electronic means. Theme one addressed Government to citizen to government…
Human fights and the environment have become increasingly interconnected. This manual seeks to contribute to a better understanding of this relationship in the light of the relevant case-law of the…
