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The Council of Europe is an official United Nations observer. [8] Unlike the EU, the Council of Europe cannot make binding laws; however, the council has produced a number of international treaties, including the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR) of 1953.
The European Women's Lobby was created in response to a growing awareness of the need to defend women's interests at the European level. European women's organizations had conferences as early as 1982 to create a structure of cooperation within the European Economic Community. Among the leading figures were Fausta Deshormes, Hilde Albertini ...
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe opposing violence against women and domestic violence which was opened for signature on 11 May 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey.
Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) is a non-profit feminist women's organization which was established in 1994 and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. It is the only European network focused exclusively on the elimination of violence against women and children, and it lobbies state governments and relevant bodies of the Council of Europe at the EU level to gain sustainability of women's ...
The Council of Europe (CoE) [1] The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts [2] The European Space Agency (ESA) [3] The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) [4] The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) [5] The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [6]
EIGE is the European knowledge centre on gender equality. Its mission is to make equality between men and women a reality for all Europeans and help people achieve equal opportunities. [2] The Agency supports EU institutions and Member States in designing inclusive and transformative measures to promote gender equality in all areas of life ...
The Council of the European Union represents governments, the parliament represents citizens and the commission represents the European interest. [14] Essentially, the Council of the European Union, parliament or another party place a request for legislation to the commission.
Only Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the Vatican City (the Holy See) are not members, while Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022 after 26 years of membership - the only country ever to be expelled in the history of the Organisation - because of its aggression against Ukraine and invasion of a fellow member state, regarded as ...