Human rights in Europe are generally upheld. However, several human rights infringements exist, ranging from the treatment of asylum seekers to police...

convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe, the convention entered...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the...

International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a...

(Euro-Mediterranean region) European Human Rights Society (Europe) European Roma Rights Centre (Europe) Federal Union of European Nationalities (Europe) Helsinki Citizens...

Human rights are moral principles or norms for standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as substantive rights in substantive law, municipal...

is the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic litigation. Codification of human rights is recent...

The European Commission of Human Rights was a special body of the Council of Europe. From 1954 to the 1998 entry into force of Protocol 11 to the European...

international human rights treaties. Denmark has held a significant role in the adoption of both the European Convention on Human Rights and in the establishment...

cultural rights. In the late 1990s, Russia also ratified the European Convention on Human Rights (with reservations), and from 1998 onwards the European Court...