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Covid-19 pandemic, European states should enhance safeguarding measures in processing
personal data of children, notably health-related data and data collected in education settings, to minimise potential adverse effects, including the public identification of a child as a Covid-19 carrier, said the Council of Europe’s
Committee of Ministers in a declaration focusing on
protecting children’s privacy in digital environment, adopted on 28 April 2021.
The Committee of Ministers expressed its concern about the consequences and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children as a result of increased online activities and use of online products and services, or of digital exclusion. However, it also acknowledged the opportunities and benefits, such as those presented by remote learning and enabling contact with family and friends and called on the states to “exercise increased vigilance” while taking steps to bridge the digital divide among children t
European states must step up efforts to protect childrenâs privacy in digital environment, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic context, says Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
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European states, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, should enhance safeguarding measures in processing personal data of children, notably health-related data and data collected in education settings, to minimise potential adverse effects, including the public identification of a child as a COVID-19 carrier, said the Council of Europeâs Committee of Ministers in a declaration adopted on 28 April 2021 focusing on protecting childrenâs privacy in digital environment.
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The platform s partner organizations have called on the international community to take decisive action.
An unprecedented wave of repressions against independent journalism in Belarus is described in the annual report of partner organizations of the Council of Europe Platform for the Promotion the Protection of Journalism and the Safety of Journalists, presented on April 28, naviny.online reports.
The partners of the platform are the European Federation of Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, the Association of European Journalists, the human rights organization Article 19, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Index on Censorship, the International Press Institute, the International News Safety Institute, the Rory Peck Trust, the European Broadcasting Union, and PEN International.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office visits Council of Europe
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Ann Linde, the
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, visited the Council of Europe on 28 April 2021. She met with Council of Europe
Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić, to discuss co-operation between the two organisations. During the meeting, she deposited the instrument of
ratification for the Convention on Cybercrime (the Budapest Convention) and for its
Additional Protocol concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems. The Convention and its Additional Protocol will enter into force in respect of Sweden on 1 August 2021; with the ratification by Sweden,
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YEREVAN, APRIL 21, ARMENPRESS. German Federal Government s Special Representative for the Presidency of the Council of Europe s Committee of Ministers, Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth expressed support for the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs in their mediation efforts for Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, ARMENPRESS reports Roth said, answering the question of Azerbaijani MP Rafael Hüseynov.
‘’As the Committee of Ministers has mentioned several times, implementing a mediation mission in the settlement process of the conflict is the responsibility of the OSCE Minsk Group. I fully support the continuous efforts under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs, particularly, in the direction f elimination of the numerous dramatic consequences of the conflict. Here I would like to note that the Co-chairs recently reminded the sides that extra efforts are necessary for solving the existing problems and creating an atmosphere of mutual confidenc