UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

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  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
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"Human rights in Europe: Do not leave the battlefield"

Council of Europe

“2015 was a year of fear and insecurity in Europe. The conflict in eastern Ukraine and ongoing economic malaise were overshadowed by a sense of vulnerability to terrorist threats and panic at the apparent inability to cope with the influx of asylum seekers”, said today Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, while presenting his annual activity report for 2015. “The instinctive response has been to retreat back into one’s ‘national fortress’ and to restrict freedoms.”

http://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/human-rights-in-europe-do-not-leave-the-battlefield