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EuroDIG to debate current challenges to Internet
governance
14-15 September,
Geneva - The 2nd European Dialogue on
Internet Governance will bring together some 200
representatives from the private sector, governments,
parliaments, civil society including youth, media and
international organisations. Key issues to be discussed
include access to the Internet, online privacy,
cybercrime, critical Internet resources, social networks
and net neutrality. Other topics will be the quality,
reliability and responsibility of user-generated content
and new media, the role of public service media,
copyright issues as well as media literacy. Delegates
will also speculate about what the Internet will be like
in 2020.
More
information,
Eurodig
website
Contact:
Jaime Rodriguez, +33 (0) 689 99 50 42,
jaime.rodriguez@coe.int
Launch of the Anti-Discrimination campaign in Russia
16-17
September, Moscow – The Anti-Discrimination campaign
will be launched officially in Russia by Gabriela
Battaini-Dragoni,
Director General of Education, Culture and Heritage,
Youth and Sport. Some 350 campaign posters and banners
will advertise the campaign in Moscow. Russian
footballer Andrei Arshavin has also given his support to
the campaign.
Campaign
website
Contact
in Moscow: Art Aslanian, tel:
+7 495 775 37 62, mobile: +7 985 365 09 86,
art.aslanian@coe.int
And also…
15/09, Strasbourg -
The
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
publishes
its reports on Greece, Switzerland and the Czech
Republic.
ECRI website
15/09, Strasbourg -
Third Meeting of the General Assembly of the European
Network of Local and Regional Authorities for the
Implementation of the European Landscape Convention
(RECEP-ENELC)
Convention
website
15/09, Strasbourg -
European Court of Human Rights to deliver 21 chamber
judgments concerning Finland, Latvia, Poland, Romania
and Turkey.
ECHR website,
tel. + 33 3 88 41 33 37
16/09, Strasbourg -
European Court of Human Rights to hold a Grand Chamber
hearing in the case
Tănase v. Moldova,
at
9.15 am.
ECHR website,
tel. + 33 3 88 41 33 37
17/09, Strasbourg -
European Court of Human Rights to deliver 9 chamber
judgments concerning “The former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia” and Russia; to deliver its Grand Chamber
judgments in the case
Enea v. Italy,
at 10 am., and in the case
Scoppola v. Italy,
at 10.30 am.
ECHR website,
tel. + 33 3 88 41 33 37
18/09, Brussels -
European
Heritage Days Press-Conference.
Contact:
Giuseppe Zaffuto,
Giuseppe.Zaffuto@coe.int,
tel. + 33 (0)3 90 21 56 04
18/09, Strasbourg -
European Court of Human Rights to deliver its Grand
Chamber judgment in the case
Varnava
and Others v. Turkey, at 10.30 am.
ECHR website,
tel. + 33 3 88 41 33 37
19/09, Bydgoszcz ( Poland) - The Congress Committee on
Culture and Education holds a seminar on ''Diverse
cities, creative cities'' to be opened by the Mayor of
Bydgoszcz, Konstanty Dombrowicz and by the President of
the Committee, Karl-Heinz Lambertz. The idea of a
creative city will be examined through the experience of
Bydgoszcz and other European cities such as Linz
(Austria), Vilnius (Lithuania) or Patras (Greece).
Congress website
20/09, Strasbourg - “Open Doors” Day at the Palais des
Droits de l’Homme (as part of the European Heritage Days)
ECHR website
For further
information on all of these events and more, visit
www.coe.int
or contact the Council of Europe Press Division (pressunit@coe.int,
tel. +33 3 88 41 25 60). |
