• Print
  • Send
  • Français

Council of Europe

Human Rights
and Rule of Law

  • Home
  • The Council in brief

    The Council in brief

    Who we are

    • Who we are
    • Leaders
    • Do not get confused
    • Symbols and logo
    • Quiz

    Mission

    • Our objectives
    • How we work
    • Our budget
    • Our actions

    Member states

    • 47 countries, one Europe
    • Art and donations

    History

    • Our guests
    • Founding fathers
    • Key dates

    Pratical information

    • Documentation
    • Contacts
    • Wallpapers
  • 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
  • Topics
  • Newsroom

 

  • Council of Europe
  • DGI Human Rights and Rule of Law

Directorate General
Human Rights and
Rule of Law

  • At a glance
  • Welcome
  • Overall mandate
  • Organisational chart
  • Site map
  • Contact
  • Events
  • Ministerial conferences
  • Campaigns
  • Prizes
  • Information & Communication
  • RSS
  • Council of Europe Journal (Web TV)
  • Multimedia (interviews and podcasts)
  • Newsletters
  • Publications
  • Directorates
  • Human Rights
  • Information Society and Action against Crime
  • Justice and Human Dignity
  • Democracy through Law
    (Venice Commission)
  • Find by
  • Topic
    • Bioethics
    • Children's rights
      • Building a Europe for and with children
      • Child-friendly justice
      • Sexual exploitation and abuse of children
    • Corruption (GRECO)
    • Crime problems (CDPC)
    • Cybercrime
    • Data protection
    • Democracy through Law (Venice Commission)
    • Drug abuse and drug trafficking (Pompidou Group)
    • Economic crime
    • Efficiency of justice (CEPEJ)
    • Equality between women and men
    • Execution of the Court's judgments (CM-EXEC)
    • Freedom of expression
    • Human rights intergovernmental co-operation (CDDH)
    • Human rights law and policy
    • Human Rights Trust Fund (HRTF)
    • Internet Governance
    • Judges (CCJE)
    • Justice and legal co-operation
    • Legal co-operation (CDCJ)
    • Media
    • Medicrime (Counterfeiting of medical products)
    • Money laundering and financing of terrorism
      • COP198
      • MONEYVAL
    • Prevention of torture (CPT)
    • Prisons and community sanctions and measures
    • Prosecutors (CCPE)
    • Social Charter
    • Social security (Code of)
    • Terrorism
    • Trafficking in human beings (GRETA)
    • Transnational criminal justice
    • Violence against women and domestic violence
  • Committee - Agreement
  • Monitoring mechanism
  • Co-operation projects
  • Country information
  • Factsheets
  • What's new close to you
    • Albania Albania
    • Andorra Andorra
    • Armenia Armenia
    • Austria Austria
    • Azerbaijan Azerbaijan
    • Belgium Belgium
    • Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Bulgaria Bulgaria
    • Croatia Croatia
    • Cyprus Cyprus
    • Czech Republic Czech Republic
    • Denmark Denmark
    • Estonia Estonia
    • Finland Finland
    • France France
    • Georgia Georgia
    • Germany Germany
    • Greece Greece
    • Hungary Hungary
    • Iceland Iceland
    • Ireland Ireland
    • Italy Italy
    • Latvia Latvia
    • Liechtenstein Liechtenstein
    • Lithuania Lithuania
    • Luxembourg Luxembourg
    • Malta Malta
    • Moldova Republic of Moldova
    • Monaco Monaco
    • Montenegro Montenegro
    • Netherlands Netherlands
    • Norway Norway
    • Poland Poland
    • Portugal Portugal
    • Romania Romania
    • Russia Russia
    • San Marino San Marino
    • Serbia Serbia
    • Spain Spain
    • Slovenia Slovenia
    • Slovak republic Slovak republic
    • Sweden Sweden
    • Switzerland Switzerland
    • The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
    • Turkey Turkey
    • Ukraine Ukraine
    • United Kingdom United Kingdom
 
News archive [2012]
 

January

February

March

April

May

June

July - August

September

October

November

December

Activities

  • Human rights
  • Law
  • Democracy
  • Society
  • Media, Communication
  • Health
  • Culture, cultural heritage, nature
  • Education, languages, sports, youth
  • Who we are
  • Human Rights Convention
  • Council of Europe Treaties

Press Multimedia

  • Newsroom
  • Web TV
  • Photo galleries
  • Podcasts
  • Campaigns

Useful links

  • Employment
  • Call for tenders
  • Archives
  • Archived web pages
  • Sitemap
  • Amicale
  • Administrative Tribunal

Contact us

  • Secretary General & Deputy Secretary General
  • Media
  • Contacts
  • External Offices
  • Visit us
  • Newsletters
  • Patronage Form
 
close
Disclaimer - © Council of Europe 2012 - © photo credit - Webmaster
Menu login Bookmarks Print RSS