The Assembly of Contributors of the Human Rights Trust Fund, during the meeting on 5 July 2022, agreed to welcome Ireland as the 8^th contributor to the HRTF.

Additionally, during the meeting the HRTF decided to allocate funding to four new projects:

• Reducing the backlog of outstanding unexecuted leading judgments of the European Court of Human Rights;
• Support for the improvement of the execution of the European Court judgments by Azerbaijan;
• Enhancing Subsidiarity: Support to the ECHR Knowledge-sharing and Superior Courts Dialogue;
• HELP in South-East Europe.

Since its creation in 2008, the HRTF has funded a total of 45 projects, with commitments over 20 million Euros. The purpose of the HRTF is to support efforts of, inter alia, member States to meet their commitments under the European Convention on Human Rights and other Council of Europe human rights standards.

The HRTF currently brings together Finland, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Ambassador Nina Nordström, Permanent Representative of Finland to the Council of Europe, is the current chairperson of the Assembly of Contributors, with the ODGP providing the Secretariat of the Assembly.

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