Here’s a direct link to the Google Maps section showing the Palais de l’Europe of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) (marked Cour européenne des droits de l’homme) in Strassburg.
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Here’s a direct link to the Google Maps section showing the Palais de l’Europe of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) (marked Cour européenne des droits de l’homme) in Strassburg.
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Purpose: Promoting Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law
Entity: Intergovernmental Organisation
Founding year: 1949
Member states: 46
Based in: Strassburg/France
Working languages: EN, FR
Secretary General: Alain Berset
Decision-making body: Committee of Ministers (=Foreign ministers of the member states)
Consultative bodies: Parliamentary Assembly; Congress of Local and Regional Authorities; Conference of INGOs; Commissioner for Human Rights
Main legal instrument: European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
Legal basis: European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) plus more than 200 Conventions, Additional Protocols and Partial Agreements
Ordinary annual budget: € 385mio
(of which Court: € 85 mio)
