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

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an supranational...

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...

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

Council of Europe. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have raised concern for the status of human rights in Hungary...

Foundation Humanists International Human Rights First Human Rights Foundation Human Rights Internet Human Rights Watch Human Rights Without Frontiers International...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent and impartial non-judicial institution established in 1999 by the Strasbourg-based...

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

Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to respect for one's "private and family life, his home and his correspondence"...

frequently alleged that Azerbaijan has violated human rights standards established in international law. Human Rights Watch issued a 2013 report accusing Azerbaijan...

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...

Human rights are universally recognized moral principles or norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both national...

Human rights in Ukraine concern the fundamental rights of every person in Ukraine. Between 2017 and 2022, Freedom House has given Ukraine ratings from...

issue of human rights is of high importance for the negotiations with the European Union (EU). In 2024, Freedom House rated Turkey's human rights at 33 out...

Human rights are largely respected in Switzerland, one of Europe's oldest democracies. Switzerland is often at or near the top in international rankings...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Headquartered in New York...

A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists...

The Council of Europe (CoE; French: Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and...

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...