The Council of Europe upholds the Human Rights Convention, which requires member states to "hold free elections ... which will ensure the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of the legislature".
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The Council of Europe, which monitors human rights across the continent and has among its members all but the very nastiest countries in Europe, has recently implied that Ukraine will be booted out if its presidential election is dirty.
OSCE, whose codes of conduct it has repeatedly mocked, and from the Council of Europe, whose legal conventions on human rights it has comprehensively flouted.
It is true that one must be a member of the Council of Europe if one is to be considered for membership of the EU. But other than that, human rights are CoE matters, not EU. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg is not a European Union body, it is a Council of Europe one.
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Jan Kleijssen, Director of Standard Setting in the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe, and William Horsley, Media Freedom Representative, Association of European Journalists, will also speak.
But none of the 'stans has become a member of the Council of Europe (another talking shop and human-rights guardian, based in Strasbourg).
The 47 judges of the European Court of Human Rights, one for each member of the Council of Europe (not to be confused with the European Union), are elected by the council's parliamentary assembly.
The European institution responsible for defending human rights, the Council of Europe, had urged Hungary to postpone the vote.
But he believed the "winds of change are in our favour" telling the Commons that if the UK's reforms are successful "we stand to gain a stronger Council of Europe and a more effective court which is focused better on real, substantive breaches of human rights".
According to Fava, the European Parliament's report supports earlier findings by the human rights group, The Council of Europe, saying the CIA has, on several occasions, clearly been responsible for kidnapping and illegally detaining alleged terror suspects on the territory of E.
The European Convention of Human Rights was prepared by the Council of Europe in 1950 and ratified by the United Kingdom in 1951.
The European Court of Human Rights allows generous latitude to Council of Europe states to make their own decisions about such developments as civil partnerships.
The Council of Europe is a key partner of the United Nations in our shared global quest, united behind the principle of all human rights, for all people.
In his article, Mr Clegg also said the UK would seek to reform the European Court of Human Rights when it takes over chairmanship of the Council of Europe in November - in order to improve the speed and consistency of the court's decisions.
Britain is about to start a six-month role as chair of the Council of Europe, which would be an opportunity to influence how the European Convention on Human Rights works, he said.
Even if an appeal is rejected by Turkish judges, Mr Ocalan's lawyers will probably bring the case before the Court of Human Rights, the legal arm of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, which is threatening to expel Turkey if it has Mr Ocalan hanged.
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