The Latest Breaking News from Council of Europe

Kosovo has criticized the Council of Europe’s decision against holding a vote on its membership, saying it deprived its people and especially its ethnic minorities of democratic tools offered by the continent’s top human rights body

Britain's parliament on Monday passed a bill under which asylum seekers would be deported to Rwanda to await a decision on their applications, in a bid by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to stop people making the dangerous sea crossing to the UK across the Channel.

Council’s commissioner for human rights says some people prosecuted in the Hague for war crimes ‘return to their communities as heroes’

Council of Europe team raised a wide range of concerns based on visit to Kent detention centre last year

Talking Europe interviews the head of the Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog. A former Croatian minister of foreign and European affairs, Marija Pejcinovic Buric was elected to lead the Council of Europe in 2019. The organisation started out with just 10 nations in 1949, and now numbers…

Council of Europe has established digital register of damage as first step towards compensation mechanism

The Prime Minister and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to bolster cooperation in tackling illegal migration across the Strait of Dover - the world's busiest shipping lane

Leaders from across Europe are putting the final touches on a system that should establish the damage Russia is causing during the war in Ukraine

As the war enters its 448th day, we take a look at the main developments.