The Council of Europe is a human rights organisation instituted by the European Convention on Human Rights, a treaty designed to protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
By Franck BEAUDOIN, avocat
Published on droit.co on 28 October 2021
This Convention is an international treaty under which the member States of the Council of Europe undertake to secure fundamental civil and political rights, to everyone within their jurisdiction.
The European Court of Human Rights is based in Strasbourg, France.
+ Read: European Convention on Human Rights (official website echr.coe.int)
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