Menschenrechte, Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit
Key areas of work of the Council of Europe
Discover a selection of topics highlighting the Council of Europe’s work on some of the major challenges facing our societies. From artificial intelligence, the environment and migration to health and the consequences of conflict, explore how the Organisation works to protect human rights, strengthen democracy and uphold the rule of law across Europe.
Human rights are the Council of Europe's DNA, the founding principles that underpin everything we do, and one of the three pillars of our mission, along with democracy and defending the rule of law. The human-rights protection system built by the Council of Europe is seen at its strongest through the European Convention on Human Rights and the work of the European Court of Human Rights, which adjudicates cases brought by individual citizens against the government of countries they believe have violated their rights.
