{"id":86491,"date":"2025-04-19T06:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=86491"},"modified":"2025-04-18T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:45:02","slug":"theres-a-strange-backsliding-on-human-rights-council-of-europe-chief-berset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/theres-a-strange-backsliding-on-human-rights-council-of-europe-chief-berset\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a &#8216;strange backsliding&#8217; on human rights: Council of Europe chief Berset"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k5oIyDA495hLT8CTeBw\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p><\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crackdown on demonstrators in Turkey, the detention of the mayor of Istanbul and a clampdown on pro-EU protesters in Georgia \u2013 there is currently no shortage of challenges to the Council of Europe from its own members. Europe&#8217;s largest and oldest intergovernmental body \u2013 comprising 46 countries \u2013 has a relatively new boss: Alain Berset became secretary general in September 2024. We ask him if human rights are under attack, and what recourse he has when members flout the organisation&#8217;s core principles and values. Before his current role, Berset was an elected minister in the government of Switzerland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[36808,3542],"class_list":["post-86491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-council-of-europe-chief-berset","tag-human-rights","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}