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Council of Europe

July 2024

  • Smoke billows from the spire of gothic cathedral in Rouen, northern France.

    Europe live
    Emergency services contain fire in Rouen’s gothic cathedral – as it happened

  • Gordon Brown

    Rage as Putin bombs a children’s hospital in Kyiv, but know there is a way to try him for his crimes

    Gordon Brown

May 2024

  • Doreen Massey

    Lady Massey of Darwen obituary

    Teacher, education adviser and politician who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of children in Britain and abroad

April 2024

  • Rishi Sunak addresses a press conference in Warsaw.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Defence spending in UK to be put ‘on war footing’, Rishi Sunak says – as it happened

  • Composite image of the House of Lords on Monday and Rishi Sunak

    Council of Europe human rights watchdog condemns UK’s Rwanda bill

February 2024

  • In the foreground, people wearing lifejackets are in a boat. In the background is the NGO's larger boat with the name 'Open Arms' on the side

    People helping asylum seekers in Europe face rising violence, report warns

    Aid workers being held at gunpoint and having communications monitored, Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner says
  • A group of people thought to be migrants are brought into Dover, Kent, on an RNLI boat.

    Council of Europe calls on UK not to process asylum claims in Rwanda

    People may be exposed to abuses such as torture and degrading treatment in Rwanda, says watchdog
  • Dick Marty served in the upper house of the Swiss parliament for 16 years.

    Dick Marty obituary

    Investigator who uncovered collusion between Europe and the US in a network of secret prisons

August 2023

  • French lifeboat Notre Dame du Risban in the Channel

    We risk being seen as the ‘nasty party’ again, warn senior Conservatives

    Moderate Tories fear the party’s attack on human rights will alienate many voters and damage the UK’s global standing

June 2023

  • The migrant processing centre in Manston, Kent

    Asylum seekers at Manston may have been treated inhumanely, report finds

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

25 May 2023

  • The foreign secretary, James Cleverly, at No 10

    UK to keep Kremlin assets frozen until Russia pays compensation to Ukraine

  • A demonstration of Roma, Gypsy and Traveller communities against the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill in London in July 2021.

    Gypsy, Roma and Travellers suffer ‘persistent’ discrimination in UK

16 May 2023

  • ICELAND-EU-POLITICS-SUMMIT-DIPLOMACY<br>Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers his speech at the opening of the 4th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe, at the Harpa concert hall in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 16, 2023. Founded in 1949, the Council of Europe is the continent's oldest pan-European organization and has a critical role to play as the region's guardian of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Cool response in Iceland as Rishi Sunak urges Europe’s leaders to back Rwanda plan

  • Rishi Sunak in Iceland.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK will end up like Russia if it ignores European court of human rights obligations, Sunak told – as it happened

  • Ursula von der Leyen

    Ursula von der Leyen steps up calls for tribunal for Russia’s ‘crime of aggression’

  • Rishi Sunak (left) and Suella Braverman during PMQs.

    Rishi Sunak to push for Europe-wide approach to illegal migration

March 2023

  • A pro-refugee rally in Athens

    Refugees subject to widespread physical ill-treatment, Council of Europe finds

  • A file photo shows people picked up at sea after attempting to cross the Channel.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    MPs reject amendments to illegal migration bill – as it happened

December 2022

  • ‘Kill the bill’ protest in Westminster

    Watchdog criticises UK ministers’ ‘antagonism’ towards human rights

    Council of Europe report finds government’s attitude is weakening protections for the public

November 2022

  • The entrance to Manston immigration centre,

    Conditions at Manston asylum centre prompt torture monitor visit

    Council of Europe’s ‘rapid reaction visit’ followed reports of diphtheria outbreak and squalid conditions
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