OVERALL STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1: PROMOTING CHILD-FRIENDLY SERVICES AND SYSTEMS

Children and young people have the legal right to equal access to and adequate treatment in healthcare, social, justice, family, education systems and services as well as sport, culture, youth work and other recreational activities aimed at young people under the age of 18. The Council of Europe will support the development of child-friendly services and systems that are respectful, responsive, reliable and responsible, with a particular focus on children in vulnerable situations. To ensure a holistic approach to the protection of children’s rights, the Council of Europe will foster exchange of good practices as regards local, regional and national procedures and institutions dealing with children’s rights.

Child-friendly justice

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Promotion of the European Guidelines on child-friendly justice by awareness-raising, translation.

·    Assistance to member states to bring domestic legislation and policies in line with the Guidelines by legal expertise, capacity building and exchange of good practices. – HUNGARY bilateral activity.

·    A project is developed to enhance child-friendly justice systems in line with the CoE guidelines on child-friendly justice. UKRAINE project in preparation.

·    Brainstorming meeting with experts on child friendly justice in Cork to develop a capacity building tool to support the Guidelines.

·    Extra-budgetary resources for the project on child-friendly justice are secured.

·    Promotion of the European Guidelines on child-friendly justice by research and training of professionals.

·    Assistance to member states to bring domestic legislation and policies in line with the Guidelines by legal expertise, capacity building and exchange of good practices. – UKRAINE bilateral activity.

·    Publication of a child-friendly version of the Guidelines.

·    Cooperation with FRA and the EU on the guidelines for child-friendly justice and the development of a child friendly version.

·    The project to enhance child-friendly justice systems in line with the CoE guidelines on child-friendly justice is finalised, a training pack on child friendly justice for professionals is developed and the project implementation phase is started.

Gordana Berjan

·    Further development of THESEUS data base on the ECHR case law concerning children.

European Court of Human Rights   (Montserrat Enrich)

·    Follow-up of ECSR conclusions on Article 17 of the European Social Charter (ESC).

DG I – Social Charter (Nino Chitashvili)

Gioia Scappucci

·    Training of custom officers

Pompidou group – Patrick Penninckx

Regina Jensdottir

Child-friendly health care

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Ensure that all relevant Council of Europe bodies and activities take into account the child-friendly healthcare approach, including the 2nd Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Social Cohesion (Istanbul, 11-12 October 2012).

·    Promotion of the Guidelines on child-friendly health care in all relevant international, regional and national fora + translation.

·    Publication of a booklet on the healthcare approach (/booklet developed with SOS on alternative care) + translation

·    Cooperation with WHO, UNICEF and OHCHR, including following the publication of the OHCHR study.

DG II – Social Cohesion and Integration (Thorsten Afflerbach)

Stéphanie Burel, Susie Morgan

·    Create, print and disseminate a leaflet on the Guidelines on child-friendly health care.

·    Translations and dissemination of the leaflet.

·    Development and promotion of educational tools to foster debates and support education of children on bioethical issues.

DG I – Bioethics (Laurence Lwoff)

Child-friendly social services

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·   Follow-up to the Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)12 on children’s rights and social services friendly to children and families.

·   Promotion of the Recommendation with additional translations.

·   Develop a feasibility study concerning the implementation of the recommendation (in conjunction with recommendations on alternative care + positive parenting).

·   Give follow-up to the feasibility study (training pack? Publication on best practices?)

DG II – Social Cohesion and Integration (Thorsten Afflerbach)

Stéphanie Burel

·   Create, print and disseminate a leaflet on the Recommendation on child-friendly social services.

·   Publication of a child-friendly version of the Recommendation

·   Dissemination and translation of the child-friendly version of the European Social Charter.

DG I – Social Charter (Nino Chitashvili & Danuta Wisniewska)

Gioia Scappucci

Family law and policies

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Promote the signature, ratification, implementation and monitoring of all Council of Europe relevant family law standards[1]

·    Drawing up of instruments on standards on dispute resolution in the exercise of parental responsibilities, in particular as concerns decisions on the relocation of children (factors to be taken into account and procedures to be followed).

DG I – Legal Co-operation (Simon Tonelli)

Stéphanie Burel

·    Provide guidance to the member States in developing and improving policies and practices of positive parenting and contribute to the first European Conference of Parenting Support (2012).

·    Provide guidance to member states in developing and improving policies and practices of positive parenting with additional translations of the recommendation and bilateral initiatives.

·    Promote the recommendation in international fora.

·    Develop a feasibility study concerning the implementation of the recommendation (in conjunction with the social services recommendation and on alternative care) see above and ensure implementation.

Education

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Promote democracy and human rights values in education through the development of training programmes for education professionals, with particular focus on children’s rights, tackling violence against children in schools, democratic culture, equality, intercultural dialogue, and a child- and learner-centred pedagogy.

·    Creation, dissemination and promotion of child-friendly version of EDC/HRE Charter.

·    Promote democracy and human rights values in education through the development of training programmes for education professionals, with particular focus on children’s rights, tackling violence against children in schools, democratic culture, equality, intercultural dialogue, and a child- and learner-centred pedagogy.

·    Basket funding to finance pilot projects on EDC/HRE Charter.

DG II – Pestalozzi Programme (Josef Huber)

DG II – Human Rights Education (Yulia Pererva)

Gordana Berjan

·    Follow up of ECSR conclusions on Article 17 by Governmental Committee of the ESC.

DG I – Social Charter (Nino Chitashvili)

Gioia Scappucci

Sport

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Conference on sexual violence in sports, Budapest 2013

DG II – Sport / Good governance in sport (Stanislas Frossard)

Gordana Berjan

Youth policies

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    International reviews of national youth policies, in connection with child policies.

DG II – Youth Department (André Jacques)

Stéphanie Burel

National children’s rights institutions

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Foster exchange of good practices as regards local, regional and national procedures and institutions dealing with children’s rights. – UKRAINE Ombudspersons

·    Foster exchange of good practices as regards local, regional and national procedures and institutions dealing with children’s rights.

Gordana Berjan

Additional comments:

2013: The Council of Europe becomes a donor partner for at least one project for the promotion of children’s rights.

OVERALL STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2: ELIMINATING ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN

Children and young people are legally entitled to be protected from all forms of violence. But despite positive steps in this direction, children continue to suffer violence in all spheres of life – in their home, in school, while practising their activities, in residential institutions and detention, in the community, and in the media.

The Council of Europe will continue to act as a regional initiator and co-ordinator of initiatives to eliminate all violence against children in Europe. As the European forum for follow-up to the recommendations of the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children (2006), it will continue to support the mandate of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence against Children as well as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. To this end, the Organisation will adopt a two-pronged approach to:

• Support the adoption and implementation of integrated national strategies to protect children from violence. These will include legislative, policy and institutional reforms and a focus on prevention.[2]

• Promote zero tolerance for all forms of violence by raising awareness and taking action

  To address specific types of violence and focus on settings in which violence occurs.

Violence against children in general

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Assist member states in adopting integrated national strategies for the protection of children from violence in line with the recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children through co-operation activities and exchange of good practices.

·    Summary report of European responses to the UN VAC global progress survey.

·    Regional conference on VAC in Turkey.

·    Cooperation Programme – Kazakhstan

·    Create, print and disseminate a “best practices manual on integrated strategies against violence” on successful cases in the Council of Europe member States.

Gordana Berjan

·    Cooperation Kazakhstan

Venice Commission

Sexual violence

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Monitoring of the implementation of Convention on the Protection of Children from Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence (CETS No. 201).

·    2 meetings of the Lanzarote Committee

·    1 capacity building event on the Lanzarote Convention.

·    Decide upon a European Day on the Fight against Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation of Children by 2014.

·    Articles on the Lanzarote Convention, second edition: Ethical reporting and interviewing with children victims of sexual violence.

·    Ethical interviewing and forensic interviewing : examples of good practice

·    Report on ethical reporting of violence and especially sexual violence by professionals in contact with children and by the media

Lanzarote Committee

CDMSI (Björn Janson)

Gioia Scappucci

·    Pursue the Council of Europe ONE in FIVE Campaign to stop sexual violence against children by promotion of the signature, ratification and implementation of the Lanzarote Convention and awareness raising of children, parents and professionals working for and with children by producing reprints and adaptations of the awareness raising material, capacity building, advancing private and public partnerships, facilitating participation of children and young people, producing thematic expert reports and offering political and technical support to member states.

·    Pursue the Council of Europe ONE in FIVE Campaign to stop sexual violence against children: A number of states ready to launch their campaigns.

Intersecretariat ONE in FIVE Campaign Working Group

Gordana Berjan, Gioia Scappucci, Susie Morgan

·    Coordinate the CoE ONE in FIVE Campaign with campaign activities of the parliamentary dimension (undertaken by PACE campaign unit).

PACE (Jannick Devaux & Maren Lambrecht)

·    Pursue the ONE in FIVE Campaign by implementing a Strategic Action Plan on the local and regional dimensions of the Campaign (awareness-raising at local and regional level, promoting the use of Council of Europe tools by local and regional authorities, fostering a multi-disciplinary approach in building child-friendly services).

·    Preparation of a report on the use of the Lanzarote Convention in the legislation of regions with legislative powers.

Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (Joanne Hunting)

·    Promote the signature, ratification and implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime with a focus on countering child abuse images.

DG I - Data Protection and Cybercrime (Alexander Seger)

Gioia Scappucci

·    Follow-up of ECSR conclusions on Article 7§10 of the ESC.

DG I - Social Charter (Nino Chitashvili)

Trafficking in children

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Guide and assist member states in fulfilling their obligations under the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human beings (CETS No. 197) to reduce children’s vulnerability to trafficking by means of country evaluations which pay particular attention to:

·    Measures taken to prevent trafficking in children and raise awareness;

·    Steps taken to ensure that the best interests of the child are taken into account during identification procedures, when granting residence permits and considering the children's return;

·    The provision of assistance and protection to child victims of trafficking.

·    Guide and assist member states in fulfilling their obligations under the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human beings (CETS No. 197) to reduce children’s vulnerability to trafficking by means of country evaluations which pay particular attention to:

·    Measures taken to prevent trafficking in children and raise awareness;

·    Steps taken to ensure that the best interests of the child are taken into account during identification procedures, when granting residence permits and considering the children's return;

·    The provision of assistance and protection to child victims of trafficking.

DG I - Trafficking in Human Beings (Petya Nestorova)

Gioia Scappucci

·    Follow-up of ECSR conclusions on Article 7§10 of the ESC.

DG I - Social Charter (Nino Chitashvili)

Corporal punishment, gender-based violence and domestic violence

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·     Promotion of the abolishment of corporal punishment of children (dissemination of information and media packs, support to national law reform and awareness raising initiatives).

Gordana Berjan

·    Follow-up to the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (CETS No. 210) – Istanbul Convention (promotion of the Convention through awareness raising, publications and training).

DG I - Violence against Women (Liri Kopaci-Di Michele)

·    Follow up of ECSR conclusions on Article 7§10 of the ESC.

DG I - Social Charter (Nino Chitashvili)

Gioia Scappucci

Violence in school

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·    Promote the implementation of the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education. – Working group meeting December 2012.

·    Support member states’ policies, teaching programmes and activities aimed at preventing and reducing violence in schools.

·    Testing of training pack on violence in schools.

·    Violence in schools expert meeting (October/November)

·    Promote the implementation of the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education.

·    Support member states’ policies, teaching programmes and activities aimed at preventing and reducing violence in schools.

·    Continue testing of training pack on violence in schools.

·    Translation of violence in schools training pack (EU funded)

·    Promotion of tools to tackle violence in schools promoted in at least 5 countries.

DG II - Pestalozzi programme (Josef Huber)

DG II - Human Rights Education (Yulia Pererva)

Gordana Berjan

Additional comments:

General activities pertaining to all the subgroups of violence against children:

·    At least 2 member states adopt and implement integrated strategies on violence against children: Russian Federation and Greece

·    Reviewing national initiatives

·    Peer reviewing

·    Capacity building

OVERALL STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3: GUARANTEEING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN IN VULNERABLE SITUATIONS

Children are legally entitled to equal enjoyment of their rights, yet in practice, some children are particularly exposed to rights violations, and need special attention and measures to protect them as well as measures to empower them, in particular through access to citizenship and human rights education. The Council of Europe is committed to eliminating discrimination against children in vulnerable situations, through stepped up cooperation with UNICEF, the EU and civil society. Besides the groups of children mentioned below, the Council of Europe will continue to protect the rights of other children in vulnerable situations, such as those from national minorities; living in poverty; children raised in social isolation; child victims of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status such as sexual orientation or gender identity. While implementing this objective, the Council of Europe will take into account that children are often exposed to multiple forms of discrimination.

Alternative care

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·     Inform children in alternative care about their rights by the translation and dissemination of a child-friendly comic booklet and the development of a training manual.

·     Tool on alternative care is designed, translated, launched and piloted in at least 2 countries.

·     Additional translations of the booklet.

·     Data collection activity on alternative care in cooperation with UNICEF.

·     Cooperate with CBSS to use their auditing tool on alternative care in other CoE member states.

·     Develop a feasibility study on the implementation of the recommendation in conjunction with the positive parenting and social services recommendations and start its implementation (see above).

Stéphanie Burel

Children with disabilities

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·       Promote the signature, ratification and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Provide expertise, policy guidelines, and - upon request by member states - capacity-building events, with a view to protecting and promoting the rights of children with disabilities;

·       Promote the rights of girls with disabilities and combat multiple discrimination on the ground of gender and disability;

·       Promote inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream education;

·       Promote Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)9 on the education and social inclusion of children and young people with autism spectrum disorder;

·       Promote Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)2 on de-institutionalisation and community living of children with disabilities.

·       Continuation of 2012 activities.

DG II - Social Cohesion and Integration (Thorsten Afflerbach),

Social Cohesion and Diversity Department, Directorate of Human Rights and Antidiscrimination

Stéphanie Burel

·       ECSR to monitor implementation of Article 15 of the ESC.

DG I - Social Charter (Nino Chitashvili)

Gioia Scappucci

Children and detention

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·     Promote and evaluate the implementation by the member states of the Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)11 on the European Rules for juvenile offenders subject to sanctions and measures;

·     Follow-up to the Istanbul Resolution.

·     Undertake a stocktaking exercise/seminar on children in detention and explore possibilities to work on violence against children in detention, the rights of children with parents in prison, alternatives to detention and/or detention of unaccompanied minors.

·     Round table with UNHCR on unaccompanied children.

·     Concept paper on unaccompanied/separated minors

·     Promotion of tools to tackle violence against children in detention promoted in at least 5 countries.

DG I – Criminal Law (Ilina Taneva)

DG II – Migration coordination (Sergey Khrychikov)

Gordana Berjan

·     22^nd Conference of the Ministers of Justice, Vienna.

·     Report on children’s rights and the CPT

·     Follow up on report by the Committee on the Prevention of Torture (CPT)

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DG I – CPT (Hugh Chetwynd)

Gordana Berjan

Migrant children and children “on the move”

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·     Follow-up to Recommendations CM/Rec(2008)4 on strengthening the integration of children of migrants and of immigrant background, CM/Rec(2009)13 on the nationality of children, CM/Rec(2007)9 on life projects for unaccompanied migrant minors, and the Guidelines on child-friendly justice: assistance to the member States to the elaboration and implementation of national policies, dissemination of the above standards, training of professionals and awareness-raising with particular focus on children’s participatory rights in proceedings affecting their nationality and on migrant children (language, access to free legal aid, information about the procedures)

·     Monitoring compliance of national asylum policies and practices with the rights of the child and, upon request of member states, assistance in ensuring appropriate follow-up to the relevant judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and of the other monitoring mechanisms’ recommendations.

DGII – Migration coordination (Sergey Khrychikov)

Gioia Scappucci

·     Follow-up of collective complaints under ESC; in particular No. 47/2008, Defence for Children International v. The Netherlands.

DG I - Social Charter (Nino Chitashvili)

·     Promote the protection of children's rights and the participation of children under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages by using existing monitoring procedures and reports.

DG II - European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (Jörg Horn-Aps)

Promote the protection of children's rights and the participation of children under the Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities.

DG II - Framework Conventions for the Protection of National Minorities (Michèle Akip and Charlotte Altenhoener)

Roma children

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·         Encourage and support member states to develop and implement methods guaranteeing access to education to Roma children, including educating and informing teachers on Roma culture and anti-discrimination work and parental education of Roma parents aiming at reinforcing the need and necessity of education of their children. Particular attention will be paid to the rights of Roma girls and the need to combat early marriages.

·         Prepare a feasibility study on Roma children and their rights.

·     Follow-up on the feasibility study: Organise study groups in 2-3 member states, which, based upon child participation methodology, will interview Roma children.

DG II - Support Team of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Roma Issues (Sixto Molina, Eleni Tsetsekou)

Gioia Scappucci

Non-discrimination

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·     Promote the protection of children’s from racism and intolerance by existing monitoring procedures and reports.

DG II - European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (Anna Chiara Cerri)

Stéphanie Burel

Education

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·     Promote access to citizenship and human rights education for children in vulnerable situations.

DG II - Human Rights Education (Yulia Pererva)

Stéphanie Burel

Sexual orientation

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·     Develop and publish a child-friendly version of the recommendation to fight discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity (tbc)

·     Develop awareness-material targeting schools (tbc)

DG II - European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (Anna Chiara Cerri)

Stéphanie Burel

Additional comments:

OVERALL STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 4: PROMOTING CHILD PARTICIPATION

All children have the legal right to be heard and taken seriously in all matters affecting them, whether in the family or alternative care environments; day-care; schools; local communities; health care, justice and social services; sport, culture, youth work and other recreational activities aimed at young people under the age of 18; and policy-making at domestic, European and international levels. A major obstacle to effective child participation can be attributed to adult attitudes. The Council of Europe and its member states are responsible for reversing this situation and establishing a culture of respect for children’s views.

Children’s participation is a cross-cutting approach throughout the whole strategy. The Organisation will continue to mainstream child participation as a working method and an attitude into its own standard-setting, monitoring and co-operation activities. This objective will be mainstreamed in particular in the Council of Europe sectors working on youth, on education and on media and information society.

Activity 2012

Envisaged activity 2013

Cooperating entity

Children’s Rights Div.

·     Improving children’s access to information about their rights by development, translation and dissemination of child-friendly printed material (A passport to you rights, comic booklet for children in care, Kiko and the hand etc.) and Internet content.

·     Further development and translation into additional languages of the internet safety game for children “Through the Wild Web Woods” and the accompanying Teacher’s Guide.

·     Further development and translation into additional languages of the internet safety game for children “Through the Wild Web Woods” and the accompanying Teacher’s Guide.

·     Include at least 2 child participation activities in the CoE monitoring or standard setting work.

Stéphanie Burel

·     Promotion and translation of Compasito, a manual on human rights education for and with children into non-official languages.

DG II - Youth Department (André Jacques)

·     Finalisation, promotion and evaluation of the implementation of the CM Recommendation on participation of children and young people under 18.

·     A participation promotional pack (recommendation, leaflet, policy reviews, comparative studies, self-assessment tool) is translated and disseminated.

·     Self- assessment tool will be designed, published and tested in 2 countries.

·     Cooperation with the EU, FRA, UNICEF and UNCRC should be ensured for the launching of the self-assessment tool and its future use in their own work.

DG II - Youth Department (André Jacques)

·     Promotion of the Award “City for Children” on various aspects of building a child-friendly environment at local level, including on increasing child participation.

Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (Joanne Hunting)

·     Promote the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (CETS No. 108) to ensure better protection of children’s privacy resulting from the use of information and communication technologies.

·     Support the conduct of a youth consultation on the protection of privacy in the new media environment with School net (tbc).

·     Promote children’s right to privacy and empower them in the new media environment.

DG I - Data protection (Sophie Kwasny)

·     Raise awareness of Internet service providers, social networks and the media in their practical understanding of and compliance with the rights of the child.

·     Develop and publish a report on best practices concerning cyber bullying and violence in schools.

·     As a fellow-up to the report, develop a participation project.

DG I - Media, Information Society / Internet Governance Task Force (Jan Malinowski and Lee Hibbard)

·     Promote and support children’s participation in the implementation of the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education.

DG II - Human Rights Education (Yulia Pererva)

Additional comments:

For 2014: Based on the self-assessment of the implementation of children’s right to participation, 3 member states are provided with concrete guidance on improving their policies in this respect.

ALL STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

Working methods and cooperation with other COE bodies (PACE, CONGRESS, COURT, HR COMMISSIONER)

·         Co-ordinate and mainstream all Council of Europe activities on children’s rights.

DG I – Children’s Rights Division

Regina Jensdottir

·         Specify and reinforce the Network of National Focal Points on Children's Rights.

DG I – Children’s Rights Division

Gordana Berjan

·         Consider the setting-up of a children’s rights commission.

DG I – Children’s Rights Division

Regina Jensdottir

·         Reinforce co-operation with NGOs. Organisation of event for NGO implementation of the strategy.

DG I – Children’s Rights Division + Jutta Güttskov

Regina Jensdottir

·         Revise and regularly update the website www.coe.int/children

DG I – Children’s Rights Division

Susie Morgan

·         Mid-term Review Conference, March 2014, review progress and decide the Programme’s orientations beyond 2015.

DG I – Children’s Rights Division

Regina Jensdottir

·         Co-operation with the Parliamentary Assembly

Tanya Kleinsorge, Maren Lamprecht

·         Co-operation with the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities

Dmitri Marchenkov, Joanne Hunting

·         Co-operation with the Human Rights Commissioner

Françoise Kempf

Regina Jensdottir

·         Co-operation with the ECHR

Montserrat Enrich-Mas