Human rights are the Council of Europe's DNA, the founding principles that underpin everything we do, and one of the three ...

All 27 EU countries have signed up the European Convention on Human Rights. The EU is bound by its treaties to ... It has a budget of €1.5 billion. The programme offers independence of action, as it ...

However, it is referred to implicitly and contains the classical human rights guarantees, as does the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, for example ...

Activists filed a lawsuit in 2022 arguing that the state violates the European Convention on Human Rights by not doing enough to limit climate change, or mitigate its effects, and the case has since ...