2025

List of CINGO Representatives and Liaisons

to CoE committees and other bodies

Situation 17 January 2025

Intergovernmental committees

Steering Committee on Human Rights (CDDH)

Ciaran King (Standing Committee);

Simon Matthijssen (Standing Committee)

Drafting Group on Human Rights and Environment (CDDH-ENV)

Amy Jacobsen, Greenpeace

Committee of Bioethics (DH-BIO)

Gender Equality Commission (GEC)

Cianán B. Russell, ILGA-Europe;

Bettina Hahne, Soroptimist International

European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ)

Cyril Ritchie, CIVICUS

Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI)

Committee of experts on the integrity of online information (MSI-INF)

EU Accession Group (46+1)

Olga Sadovskaya (Standing Committee)

Piotr Sadowski (Standing Committee)

Evaluation of the first effects of Protocols No. 15 and No. 16 to the ECHR (DH-SYSC-PRO)

Olga Sadovskaya (Standing Committee)

System of the European Convention on Human Rights (DH-SYSC)

Olga Sadovskaya (Standing Committee)

Issues relating to judges of the ECHR (DH-SYSC-JC)

Olga Sadovskaya (Standing Committee)

Eradication of Impunity Human Rights Violations (CDDH-ELI)

Human Rights in Situations of Crisis (CDDH-SCR)

Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)

Francesca Fanucci, Council of Experts

CDDEM plenaries

Gerhard Ermischer (President of the Standing Committee);

Roy Virah-Sawmy, EPD

CDDEM Working Group on Parameters for the application and implementation of the Reykjavík Principles of Democracy (GT-P)

Gerhard Ermischer (President of the Standing Committee);

Roy Virah-Sawmy, EPD

CDDEM Working Group on civil society participation (GT-CS)

Gerhard Ermischer (President of the Standing Committee);

Roy Virah-Sawmy, EPD

Steering Committee for Education (CDEDU)

Anna Sevortian (Standing Committee);

Genevieve Laloy (Standing Committee)

European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ)

Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ)

Ece Ciftci (Standing Committee);

Iordanis Chorozoglou (Standing Committee)

Joint Council on Youth (CMJ)

Ece Ciftci (Standing Committee);

Iordanis Chorozoglou (Standing Committee)

Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP)

Anna Sevortian (Standing Committee);

Sophie Hüglin, European Association of Archaeologists

Collaborative Platform on Social and Economic Rights (COE-FRA-ENNHRI-EQUINET)

Piotr Sadowski (Standing Committee);

Peter Verhaeghe, CARITAS

Steering Committee for the Rights of the Child (CDENF)

Ruth Allen (Standing Committee)

Committee of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Lanzarote Committee)

Katrina Melissari, Hope For Children

Steering Committee on Anti-discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion (CDADI)

Goran Miletic (Standing Committee);

Piotr Sadowski (Standing Committee)

Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues (ADI-ROM)

Goran Miletic (Standing Committee)

Committee of Experts on Combating Hate Speech (ADI/MSI-DIS)

Goran Miletic (Standing Committee)

Committees of the Parties

Committee of the Parties to the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Violence Against Women)

Anita Schnetzer Spranger, Zonta Int.

Committee of the Parties to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

Marie Salphati, FIACAT

Governmental Committees

European Committee of Social Rights (on invitation) (ECSR)

Piotr Sadowski (Standing Committee);

Ruth Allen (Standing Committee);

Peter Verhaeghe, CARITAS

Partial Agreements

North South Centre Bureau (NSC)

Christoph Spreng, Initatives of Change-International

Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (OHTE)

Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS)

Arthur Garrido, ANETAPS

Pompidou Group

Others

Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of PACE

Piotr Sadowski (Standing Committee);

Anna Rurka, EUROCEF

Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of PACE

Anita Schnetzer Spranger, ZONTA Int.

Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons of PACE

Ciaran King (Standing Committee);

World Forum for Democracy Steering Group (WFfD)

Maritchu Rall, ESAN-AISBL

European Landscape Convention (ELC)

Gerhard Ermischer (President of the Standing Committee);

Sophie Hüglin, European Association of Archaeologists

INGO Committees

Education for Democracy

Genevieve Laloy (Standing Committee);

Iordanis Chorozoglou (Standing Committee)

Civil Society Committee on the Rights of the Child in Europe

Ruth Allen (Standing Committee);

Ece Ciftci (Standing Committee);

Ciaran King (Standing Committee)

Interreligious & Interconvictional Dialogue

Gerhard Ermischer (President of the Standing Committee);

Committee on Migration Issues

Ciaran King (Standing Committee);

Genevieve Laloy (Standing Committee);

Human rights, Democracy and Artificial Intelligence

Iordanis Chorozoglou (Standing Committee);

Simon Matthijssen (Standing Committee)

Environmental and health crisis: governance and solidarity issues

Genevieve Laloy (Standing Committee);

Gender Equality

Ruth Allen (Standing Committee);

Sport and Human Rights

Simon Matthijssen (Standing Committee);

Ece Ciftci (Standing Committee)