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

The Strasbourg-based court said France violated article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, relating to the right to respect for private and family life. It said that any concept of ...

The European Court of Human Rights took Italy to task for not protecting citizens in an area where illegal dumping and ...

Sarah Dines, the former home office minister who has called for the UK to leave the Strasbourg court ... further corrupting the European Convention on Human Rights in an effort to force ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that authorities in Russia have engaged in "a coordinated effort to ...

The Strasbourg-based court said France violated article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, relating to the right to respect for private and family life. It said that any concept of ...

The UK government has rejected calls to leave the European Convention on Human Rights as it denied the agreement ensures ...

Brazil has joined the Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Convicted ... the new instrument represents a step forward in the defense of human rights at a global level. Henceforth, the ...

A case with potentially far-reaching consequences for EU border practices and human rights is being heard in Strasbourg.

"The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights," a ...

Today, the CoE is comprised of 46 European countries “working together to promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.” In 1950, the CoE adopted the European Convention of Human ...

The Court has thus laid the cornerstone for the protection of human dignity of people on the move and ensured consistency with states’ obligations under other international human rights instruments as ...