Strasbourg, 24/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - “2014 was a bad year for human rights.” This is the short, devastating sentence that opens the annual human rights report in the 47 countries of the Council of Europe (CoE) presented by Nils Muiznieks (Latvia), chair of the CoE human rights committee to the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Thursday 23 April.
“Last year thousands of people died who should not have died, primarily in the Mediterranean Sea and in eastern Ukraine”, Muiznieks...