The Council of Europe
and the protection of human rights

A 32-page illustrated booklet presenting the vocation and actions of the Council of Europe in the field of human rights. It covers the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter, the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, combating racism and intolerance, equality between women and men, activities in the spheres of media and democracy, human rights awareness, and helping the new democracies in the transitional period. Its format, design and approach combine to make it easy to read and accessible to all.

The booklet is available in PDF format in the following languages (average file-size 500 Kb):

Albanian • Armenian • Bulgarian • Catalan • Czech • Danish • Dutch • English • Finnish • French • German • Icelandic • Italian • Macedonian • Norwegian • Polish • Portuguese • Romanian • Russian • Serbian • Slovak • Spanish • Swedish • Turkish

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