Heart of Sarajevo awarded by the Council of Europe

Date: 23-31 July,
Location: Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

Event: Sarajevo Film Festival

Description: For the third consecutive year, the Heart of Sarajevo, the main award of the Sarajevo Film Festival, is sponsored by the Council of Europe. The Festival is one of the most prestigious in the European film festival circuit. Held for the first time in 1995 at the height of the siege of the Bosnian capital, it seeks to support and promote regional cinema and authors.

Council of Europe uses film to promote freedom of expression

Date: 26-28 July, 14h

Location: Sarajevo Law University (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

Event: Mock trial of the European Court of Human Rights on freedom of expression

Description: The Sarajevo Film Festival sets the scene for law students from Bosnia & Herzegovina to debate over a controversial film. In a hypothetical scenario involving a ban imposed by national authorities on a film that is highly critical of Islam, participants take on different roles in a simulation of a case before the European Court of Human Rights. Cedomir Radnic, Bosnian Court Officer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, will guide participants through the process, making sure that Council of Europe standards on freedom of expression are respected.

 Thorbjørn Jagland in Srebrenica - ''never again'' is not enough!

[12/07/2010 15:30:00] The Secretary General together with Mevlüt Çavusoglu, President of the Parliamentary Assembly, attended on 11 July the commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. In his speech to those gathered for the ceremony, Thorbjørn Jagland said: ‪''It is not enough simply to say - Never again. This has often been said, but it has not prevented an act of genocide in Europe, committed barely 50 years after the end of World War II''. (more ...)

Speech

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Compliance with obligations and commitments and implementation of the post-accession co-operation programme
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Document presented by the Secretary General

Sixteenth Report (June 2009–May 2010) - DOWNLOAD!

Council of Europe strengthens professional training on the European Convention on Human Rights

Date: 29 June 2010

Place: Strasbourg (France)

Description: Aimed at strengthening professional training on the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (the “so-called” HELP II programme) will be launched in the presence of representatives from 12 beneficiary countries (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Russian Federation and Ukraine).

Eurimages Co-production Development Award

STRASBOURG, 29.06.2010 – The Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund has joined forces with co-production markets in Rotterdam (CineMart), Sarajevo (CineLink) and Rome (New Cinema Network) to award the Eurimages Co-production Development Award.

5th Summer University of the Council of Europe on the theme "The crisis of leadership"

Strasbourg, 28.06.2010 – Some 600 students of the schools of political studies of 16 European countries are participating in the fifth Summer University for Democracy, which began today in Strasbourg and which is devoted to "The crisis of leadership".

The Summer University is the annual flagship event of the Council of Europe’s schools of political studies, which aim to train the next generation of political, economic, social and cultural leaders in transition countries. It has now become a key rendezvous for young leaders working in the New Europe's public sector, an opportunity to hold debates, exchange ideas and attempt to answer the questions of today.

5th June: World Environment Day

The main judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Strasbourg, 04.06.2010 – In order to mark the 60th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe is highlighting the Court’s case-law and its impact on legislative developments in Europe on key international days, such as World Environment Day.