Human rights

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Access to official documents

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Thematic factsheet on constitutional matters

Enhancing the national implementation of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights

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Manual on human rights and the environment - 2nd Edition

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The European Convention on Human Rights in university education and professional training

Protection, promotion and development of the Ombudsman Institution

Liability of Legal Persons for Corruption Offences

Thematic factsheet on effective investigations into death or ill-treatment caused by security forces

High-Level Conference on Continued Reform of the European Human Rights Convention System - Better Balance, Improved Protection

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Selection and election of judges of the European Court of Human Rights

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Human rights and business Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member States

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Round table on the right to trial within a reasonable time and short-term reform of the European Court of Human Rights (Bled, 2009)

See more publications on the "Steering Committee for Human Rights" website

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The longer-term future of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights

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Reforming the European Convention on Human Rights

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Glossary of the European Convention on Human Rights

Other languages: ALB - ARM - AZE - BIH - BGR - GEO - RON - RUS - SPA - SRP - TUR - UKR

Toolkit to inform public officials about the State's obligations under the ECHR

Français - Other languages: EST - GRE - ITA - NDL - POL

Guide to Good Practice in respect of Domestic Remedies

Français - Other languages: ALB - ARM - BGR - DEU - ITA - POL - RON - SRP - UKR

Protecting the right to a fair trial under the European Convention on Human Rights

Second edition: English - Romanian - Russian - Serbian - Turkish - Ukrainian

First edition: Azerbaijani - Bosnian - Bulgarian - Czech - French - Greek - Macedonian - Polish - Romanian

Human Rights and Criminal Procedure

English - Romanian - Russian - Ukrainian

A dialogue of courts - a tool for the harmonisation of judicial practice

Other language: BOS

See more publications on the "Steering Committee for Human Rights"

and "Human Rights National Implementation" websites

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The CPT in brief

Français - Other languages: ALB - ARM - AZE - BIH - BGR - HRV - CZE - DAN - NLD - EST - FIN - GEO - DEU - GRC - HUN - ISL - ITA - LAV - LTU - MKD - MLT - MNE - NOR - POL - PRT - RON - RUS - SRP - SVK - SVN - SPA - SWE - TUR - UKR

Effective Investigation of Ill-treatment

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Death is not justice - The Council of Europe and the death penalty

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The European Convention on Human Rights and Policing

Other languages: AZE - POL

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Supervision of Execution of ECHR Judgments - 11th Annual Report of the Committee of Ministers, 2017

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The implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Human Rights Handbooks

Written by experts in the field, each handbook deals with one aspect of the European Convention on Human Rights or its protocols, and is intended as a very practical guide to how particular articles of the Convention have been applied and interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Download the handbooks

Human Rights Information Bulletin

The Bulletin was published from 1978 to 2012 with the aim to summarise events in the field of human rights from the perspective of the Council of Europe. Each issue has sections devoted to different developments in the field of human rights.

Issues published

Human Rights Files

The "Human rights files" series is aimed at specialists in European law: lawyers, practitioners and research students. It also constitutes a useful resource for the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the signatory states.