Healthy, just societies need to respect the rule of law, with clear and transparent justice, fair and independent processes, and safeguards to ensure that everyone is treated equally before the law.

An efficient,impartial and independent justice system, whose decisions are enforced, is an essential pillar of the rule of law and a precondition for the enjoyment of all fundamen ...

Steering Committee on Anti-discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion – CDADI. The CDADI steers the Council of Europe’s intergovernmental work to promote equality for all and bui ...

The prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, set out in article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, is an absolute human right from which there can be no derogation. Respect ...

On 26-27 March 2025, 23 members of the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities (ICC) Programme met in Wrocław, Poland, to gain insights and practical knowledge on implementing effective intercultural ...

The Council of Europe action plan on protecting vulnerable persons in the context of migration and asylum in Europe (2021-2025) provides a framework of measures to address the human rights challenges ...

The Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) promotes sport for all, a sport founded on values and capable of bringing benefits to individuals and society in terms of health, social inclusion and ...

The Council of Europe has established two different mechanisms to combat money laundering and terrorist financing that work in close co-operation: MONEYVAL and the Conference of the Parties to CETS ...

The Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (OHTE), set up as an enlarged partial agreement in November 2020, has the mission to promote practices of history teaching that strengthen and promote the ...

The CCPE is a consultative body composed exclusively of serving prosecutors (unique in this way at European level), represents the various existing prosecution systems. This ad hoc committee is tasked ...

The CDPC identifies priority elements for intergovernmental legal co-operation and proposes areas for action on criminal law, procedure, criminology and penology by developing standard setting, ...

(ECRI) monitors developments in each and every member states of the Council of Europe by drawing up reports containing a set of country-specificr recommendations within the framework of monitoring ...