The Assembly called on all Council of Europe member, observer and partner states to "make use of all instruments at their ...

Coordination meeting on execution of judgments and workshop for judicial staff On 27 September, the Department for the ...

The decision to operate must be signed by the doctor and co-signed by a representative of the hospital administration or by a ...

Other initiatives toward reduction of coercion and promotion of voluntary practices, including advance planning mechanisms, peer support and the peer workforce, and training for mental health ...

The preceding discussion in the section entitled “Potential impact of AI on the doctor-patient relationship” concluded that ethical standards need to be developed around transparency, bias, ...

The remainder of this section focuses on an account of the healing relationship and medicine’s fiduciary duties developed in the context of virtue ethics. A virtue-based approach emphasises the ...

An influential approach which prescribes ideal ends (and thus norms and internal goods) of medicine based upon virtue ethics has been advanced by Pellegrino and Thomasma. Within this approach, based ...

Healthcare provision, systems and environments have become increasing complex which can make it challenging for individuals to access services. There is a responsibility to organise these services so ...

Who is actually involved in public debates In this document and in Article 28 of the Oviedo Convention the overarching concept of ‘public debate’ is used to describe discursive interactions in the ...

The United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) builds upon the 1963 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

The Committee of Experts on combating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (GEC/PC-eVIO) is a joint subcommittee to the Gender Equality Commission (GEC) and to the European ...

The Council of Europe contributes to SDG 4.1 mainly through its work on competences for democratic culture and language education. Through its activities, standards and tools developed in this field, ...