Minister Coveney launches Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of Europe at Turin Ministerial

Home of the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe is the continent’s leading human rights body. Under the European Convention on Human Rights, its 46 member states, including Ukraine, the UK, and Turkey, alongside the EU27 and others, are committed to promoting and protecting human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. In 1949, Ireland was one of the Council’s 10 founding members and is assuming the Presidency…