Published last April in the midst of the pandemic, the 2019 activity report by Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, could not be debated in the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). It was held on Tuesday 13 October, at the extended virtual meeting of the Standing Committee, organised in place of the autumn plenary, which has still not been able to be held in person.
Questioned by videoconference, the Commissioner preferred to base her introduction on 2020, “a year...