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The Council of Europe (French Conseil de l'Europe) is the oldest international organisation working towards European integration, having been founded in 1949. It has a particular emphasis on legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation. It has 47 member states with some 800 million citizens.

The Council of Europe is now present on Facebook with its own Page. Fans gain access to the Council of Europe TV spots, photos, podcasts and brochures.

The Council of Europe podcasts, in several languages, offer listeners three to five minute bulletins on the Organisation’s work. Listeners can find out more about the Council's campaigns against death penalty, children corporal punishment, discrimination, or violence against women. Podcasts can be downloaded at www.coe.int/podcasts [1], or played straight from the Council of Europe Page on Facebook. For subscriptions to the podcast RSS feed, listeners can also try Podcast.com, Podbean.com and Feedburner.

Its statutory institutions are the Committee of Ministers comprising the foreign ministers of each member state, the Parliamentary Assembly composed of MPs from the Parliament of each member state, and the Secretary General heading the secretariat of the Council of Europe.

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1. What is Cybercrime?
September 08, 2008

It's complicated. Cybercrime cannot be described by any one word. Just like crime as we know it, cybercrime has many different applications and can occur anytime and anyplace. Identity thieves and other criminals use several different methods, depending on how much they know and what their objective is. Cybercrime is 'crime' involving some sort of a 'computer' or 'cyber' factor. The Council of Europe's Cybercrime Treaty uses the term 'cybercrime' to identify offenses ranging from criminal activity against data to content and copyright infringement [Krone, 2005]. Others [Zevar-Gee... (read more)

Author: Randy Vezina

2. Fact about Italy
July 24, 2008

Italy has been the home of many European cultures, such as the Etruscans and the Romans, and later was the birthplace of the movement of the Renaissance, that began in Tuscany and spread all over Europe. Italy's capital Rome was for centuries the center of Western civilization, it also spawned the Baroque movement and seats the Catholic Church. Geography: Italy, slightly larger than Arizona, is a long peninsula shaped like a boot, surrounded on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the east by the Adriatic. It is bounded by France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia to the north. The Apen... (read more)

Author: Rick hutch

3. Guide to Birmingham's NEC Exhibition Centre
April 25, 2008

One of the busiest exhibition centers in the country, NEC was originally meant to be built in Leicester, but the county council felt that shows of this nature would never move away from London. As a result, Birmingham became home to the seventh largest exhibition centre in Europe! The NEC hosts an astounding 180 exhibitions a year. The shows lined up for April's represent a diverse range, including trade exhibitions like MACH 2008, Electrex 2008, IPFEX 2008, amongst many others. Towards the last week of April, there is also the National Engineering and Construction Recruitment Exhibition, w... (read more)

Author: Catherine Gliddon

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