Tag: Council of Europe

11th June 2012

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Forced Marriage Made Illegal

In his 2011 message for World Peace Day, Pope Benedict emphasised the role of the family as “the school of freedom of peace”, the bedrock of our social fabric. His Holiness added that the family founded on marriage was “the expression of the close union and complementarity between a man and a woman”. The practice […]

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23rd January 2012 London, UK

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by David Lidington

Minister for Europe, London

Making the European Court of Human Rights work better

This week is a big week for the UK in Strasbourg. We are 11 weeks into our 6 month Chairmanship of the Council of Europe. We are pressing ahead with our wide-ranging Chairmanship priorities, in particular our ambitious package of reforms for the European Court of Human Rights (the Court). The Council of Europe was […]

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