“Extremely difficult years lie ahead”, warned Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, on Wednesday 22 April, when he presented his 2025 report to the Parliamentary Assembly.
This is not an “era of change”, he said, but a “profound change of era” that threatens the very foundations of human rights.
Shaken by changes that they are unable to grasp – the impact of artificial intelligence, the triple global crisis (pollution, climate change...