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  Mission

  • Our objectives
  • How we work
  • Our budget
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  • 47 countries, one Europe
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  History

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• Human Rights

  Human Rights

  Protection of Human Rights

  • European Court of Human Rights
  • Execution of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights
  • Effectiveness of the Human Rights Convention (ECHR) system at national and European level
  • Developing human rights law and policy
  • HELP - European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals
  • ECHR training for legal professionals
  • Torture – European Committee for the Prevention of Torture CPT
  • Human Rights Trust Fund

  Promoting Human Rights

  • Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Gender equality
  • Violence against women and domestic violence
  • Trafficking in Human Beings - GRETA
  • Integration of people with disabilities
  • Racism and intolerance – ECRI
  • Roma rights
  • Migrants' rights
  • National minorities
  • Regional and minority languages
  • Children's rights – Building a Europe for and with children
  • Children's rights – Child abuse
  • Children's rights – Child-friendly justice
  • Combating discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity - LGBT

  Ensuring Social Rights

  • European Social Charter
  • European Code of Social Security
  • Public health
  • Bioethics
  • European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines – EDQM Pharmacopoeia
• Democracy

  Democracy

  Democratic governance

  • Parliamentary Assembly PACE
  • Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
  • Participation of civil society
  • Local governance
  • Education policy
  • Cultural policy
  • Youth policy
  • Biodiversity
  • World Forum for Democracy

  Sustainable Democratic Societies

  • Social cohesion strategy
  • Social cohesion - Council of Europe Development Bank CEB
  • Natural catastrophes - Major Natural and Technological Disasters EUR-OPA
  • Bern Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats
  • Cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue
  • Cultural diversity - Cultural routes
  • Cultural diversity - European Audiovisual Observatory
  • Cultural diversity - European Cinema Support Fund Eurimages
  • Intercultural dialogue - North South Centre

  • Education for democratic citizenship
  • Intercultural education - European Centre for Modern Languages ECML
  • Intercultural education and training - European Youth Centre Strasbourg EYCS
  • Intercultural education and training - European Youth Centre Budapest EYCB
  • Support to youth activities - European Youth Foundation EYF
  • Youth Mobility through the Youth Card
  • Sport and Ethics
  • Sport - Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport EPAS
• Rule of Law

  Rule of Law

  Justice

  • Justice and Legal co-operation
  • Efficiency of justice - Commission for the Efficiency of Justice CEPEJ
  • Efficiency of justice - Consultative Council of European Judges CCJE
  • Efficiency of justice - Consultative Councilf of European Prosecutors CCPE

  Common standards and policies

  • European Commission for Democracy through Law - Venice Commission
  • Crime problems - European Committee on Crime Problems CDPC
  • Prisons and Community Sanctions and Measures
  • Police
  • Data protection
  • Transnational Criminal Justice
  • Legal cooperation - European Committee on Legal Cooperation CDCJ
  • Public International Law - Committee of Legal Advisers CAHDI
  • Freedom of Expression and Media
  • Internet governance

  Threats to the Rule of Law

  • Corruption - GRECO
  • Money laundering - MONEYVAL
  • Terrorism
  • Cybercrime
  • Counterfeiting of medical products – MEDICRIME Convention
  • Drug abuse and illicit trafficking – Pompidou Group
• Organisation

  Organisation

  Institutions

  • Committee of Ministers
  • Secretary General
  • Deputy Secretary General
  • Parliamentary Assembly
  • European Court of Human Rights
  • Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
  • Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Conference of INGOs

  Secretariat General

  • Organisation and Mandates of the Secretariat
  • Directorates
    • Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law
    • Directorate General Democracy
    • Directorate of External Relations
    • Directorate of Policy Planning
    • Directorate of Legal Advice and Public International Law
    • Treaty Office

  Partial Agreements

  • North-South Centre (Lisbon)
  • European Audiovisual Observatory
  • European Centre for Modern Languages (Graz)
  • Eurimages
  • European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission)
  • EDQM/European Pharmacopoeia
  • Pompidou Group
  • Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
  • Council of Europe Development Bank (restricted)
  • Council of Europe Development Bank (public) (Paris)
  • EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement
  • Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS)

  External Offices

  • List of external offices
  • Websites
    • Baku (Azerbaijan)
    • Belgrade (Serbia)
    • Brussels (Belgium)
    • Chisinau (Moldova)
    • Kyiv (Ukraine)
    • Moscow (Russian Federation)
    • Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    • Tbilisi (Georgia)
    • Tirana (Albania)
    • Yerevan (Armenia)
• 47 Countries

  47 Countries

  Member States

  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Armenia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belgium
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France

  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Republic of Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro
  • Netherlands
  • Norway

  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Slovak Republic
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • ''The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia''
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom

  European Union

  • The Council of Europe and the European Union: different roles, shared values

  Observer States

  • Canada
  • Holy See
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • United States
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Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS)