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Purpose: Promoting Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law

Entity: Intergovernmental Organisation

Founded in: 1949

Member states: 47

Based in: Strassburg/France

Working languages: EN, FR

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

Judicial body: European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

Main instruments: European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) plus more than 200 Conventions, Additional Protocols and Partial Agreements

Administration: Secretary General plus Secretariat

Ordinary ann. budget 2017: € 466mio
(of which Court: € 72mio)

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