Conventions

Protocols

Declarations

Recommendations

  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2024)7 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the effective protection of human rights in situations of crisis
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2022)21 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2022)20 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on human rights and the protection of the environment
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2021)4 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the publication and dissemination of the European Convention on Human Rights, the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and other relevant texts
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2021)1 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the development and strengthening of effective, pluralist and independent national human rights institutions
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2021)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on measures  against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2014)02 on the promotion of human rights of older persons
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)6 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the development of the Ombudsman institution
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the system of the European Convention on Human Rights in university education and professional training
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the need to strengthen the protection and promotion of the civil society space in Europe
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on human rights and business
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity 
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)4 on human rights of members of the armed forces
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)3 on effective remedies for excessive length of proceedings
  • Guide to Good Practice: Recommendation CM/Rec (2010) 3
  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)2 on efficient domestic capacity for rapid execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
  • Recommendation Rec(2004)6 on the improvement of domestic remedies
  • Recommendation Rec(2004)5 on the verification of the compatibility of draft laws, existing laws and administrative practice with the standards laid down in the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Recommendation Rec (2004)4 on the European Convention on Human Rights in university education and professional training
  • Recommendation Rec(2002)13 on the publication and dissemination in the member states of the text of the European Convention on Human Rights and of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
  • Recommendation Rec(2002)2 on access to official documents
  • Recommendation No. R(2000)2 on the re-examination or reopening of certain cases at domestic level following judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
  • Recommendation No. R(93)1 on effective access to the law and to justice for the very poor
  • Recommendation No. R(98)13 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the right of rejected asylum seekers to an effective remedy against decisions on expulsion in the context of article 3 of the european convention on human rights
  • Recommendation No. R(97)20 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on "hate speech"
  • Recommendation No. R(97)14  of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the establishment of independent national human rights institutions
  • Recommendation No. R(94)9 of the Committee of Ministers to member States concerning elderly people
  • Recommendation No. R(94)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the promotion of education and awareness in the area of copyright and neighbouring rights concerning creativity
  • Recommendation No. R(93)1 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on effective access to the law and to justice for the very poor
  • Recommendation No. R(92)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on genetic testing and screening for health care purposes
  • Recommendation No. R(91)16  of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the training of social workers and human rights
  • Recommendation No. R(91)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member States concerning sexual exploitation, pornography and prostitution of, and trafficking in, children and young adults
  • Recommendation No. R(90)3  of the Committee of Ministers to member States concerning medical research on human beings
  • Recommendation No. R(87)8 of the Committee of Ministers to member States regarding conscientious objection to compulsory military service
  • Recommendation No. R(86)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on making medical care universally available
  • Recommendation No. R(85)13 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the institution of the ombudsman
  • Recommendation No. R(85)7 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on teaching and learning about human rights in schools
  • Recommendation No. R(85)4 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on violence in the family
  • Recommendation No. R(85)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on legal protection against sex discrimination
  • Recommendation No. R(83)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member States concerning the legal protection of persons suffering from mental disorder placed as involuntary patients
  • Recommendation No. R(83)1 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on stateless nomads and nomads of undetermined nationality
  • Recommendation No. R(81)19 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the access to information held by public authorities
  • Recommendation No. R(81)16 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the harmonisation of national procedures relating to asylum
  • Recommendation No. R(81)7 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on measures facilitating access to justice
  • Recommendation No. R(80)9 of the Committee of Ministers to member States concerning extradition to states not party to the european convention on human rights
  • Recommendation No. R(79)17 of the Committee of Ministers to member States concerning the protection of children against ill-treatment
  • Recommendation No. R(79)16 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the promotion of human rights research in the member states of the council of europe

 

Resolutions

  • Resolution CM/Res(2010)25 on member states’ duty to respect and protect the right of individual application to the European Court of Human Rights
  • Resolution Res(2004)3 on judgments revealing an underlying systemic problem
  • Resolution Res(2002)59 concerning the practice in respect of friendly settlements
  • Resolution (78)41 on the teaching of human rights
  • Resolution (80)1 containing regulations on a european human rights prize
  • Resolution (83)8 on the award of the european human rights prize
  • Resolution (85)8 on co-operation between the ombudsmen of member states and between them and the council of europe
  • Resolution (93)6 on the control of respect for human rights in european states not yet members of the council of europe

Guidelines

Reports