The Danish authorities should take a more active and structured approach in promoting German as a minority language and maintain stronger contacts with the German minority with a view to improving the presence of the German language in public life.
Following his visit to Tunisia on 21 February, the Secretary General has offered the Council of Europe’s practical cooperation.
A Parliamentary Assembly delegation is in Rabat, Morocco, to assess the country’s application to become a ‘partner for democracy.’
Renate Wohlwend, the Parliamentary Assembly’s rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty, expressed her dismay at the refusal by President Lukashenka to grant clemency to Aleh Gryshkautsou, 29 and 28 year old Andrei Burdyka.
She encouraged governments to ratify the Council of Europe’s ‘Lanzarote Convention,’ which “is the first international treaty to address all forms of sexual violence against children.
