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The CoE in brief
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

Secretary General:
Marija Pejčinović Burić

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

Ordinary ann. budget 2021: € 260
(of which Court: € 73mio)

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