Six members of the ACE Executive Board will be elected by the General Assembly (a President and five others). The other five Executive Board Members will be nominated by the next five national ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed an agreement with the Council of Europe (CoE) to create a tribunal that ...

The move is the latest among a growing wave of European cities that are restricting cruise ships to curb overtourism.

The Council of Europe and Ukraine will sign an agreement on June 25 to set up a special tribunal for the crime of Russian ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Alain Berset, have signed ...

The Council of Europe's human rights commissioner, Michael O'Flaherty, has expressed concern about the German authorities' ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in Aarhus for the official ceremony marking the start of Denmark's ...

Employees remove the Russian flag from the Council of Europe building on March 16 in Strasbourg, France. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP) On Wednesday, in a somber ceremony in Strasbourg, France, the ...

The Council of Europe, now with 46 member states, was founded in 1949 to promote human rights, democracy and rule of law in Europe after World War II.

The European Court of Human Rights, part of the council, is charged with enforcing the 1953 European Convention on Human Rights, which all members are pledged to uphold.

The council, founded in 1949, was tasked with the mission to uphold human rights and the rule of law in Europe following the Second World War. Russia joined the organization in 1996.

The Sept. 23-26 plenary of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences, which is comprised of the presidents of 33 national bishops’ conferences and a dozen other Eastern- and Latin-rite ...