Strasbourg, 24 April 2023 — “I call on the Lithuanian Parliament to reject the draft amendments to the Law on the State Border and its Protection, which would legalise the current practices that put persons in need of international protection at risk of pushbacks,” said the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja...
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Anti-torture committee calls on European governments to put an end to pushbacks and prevent ill-treatment of foreign nationals at borders
Anti-torture committee calls on European governments to put an end to pushbacks and prevent ill-treatment of foreign nationals at borders Strasbourg/Brussels, 30.03.2023 – The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has today called on European governments to protect foreign nationals deprived of their liberty under...
Halfway towards 2030 -Russian regions, cities and businesses -accelerating transformations to achieving SDGs in the ECE region The event will focus on the current achievements and lessons learnt from SDGs’ strategies and practices. Within the framework of the event, the participants will consider sustainable practices of Russia, which are...
Please join theUNECE RFSD side event «Water pressure: Sector specific public allocation for women’s empowerment – clean, affordable and gender equitable access to water». The main objective will be to assess the impacts of accessible, affordable and clean water and sanitation on the lives of women, their families as well as...
The purpose of the study is the cognition of artificial intelligence by man. The relevance of this problem is due to the fact that nowadays AI plays a very important role in the development of the economy, technology, the public sphere and scientific enterprises. Nevertheless, when AI manages to make successful predictions that go beyond the...
Dans l’administration de la région de Kaluga, une équipe de pilotes de drones de Kaluga a rencontré le gouverneur. L’équipe a montré une vidéo sur la finale de la compétition russe Koberdrom-2022, qui a eu lieu au début de l’automne dans la ville de Gelendzhik. L’équipe des pilotes de drones de Kaluga est devenue...
The Kaluga Region administration hosted a meeting of a team of Kaluga pilots of UAVs / unmanned aerial vehicles — with the governor. The team showed a video about the final of the All-Russian competition Coberdrom-2022, which took place in early autumn in the city of Gelendzhik. The team of Kaluga UAV pilots became the winner. In the team:...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) gives us tools and the roadmap to unite and speed up the fight for our rights. We celebrate the 75th anniversary of the UDHR. Stand up for Dignity, Freedom and Justice for all.
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 was one of the defining events of the twentieth century. It ended the illusion that the evil of genocide had been eradicated and spurred renewed commitment to halting genocides in the future. For Rwandans, whether inside the country or abroad, the consequences of the genocide are direct and tangible. They struggle...