Open AccessTHE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND ITS MECHANISMS FOR PROTECTING AND GUARANTEEING HUMAN RIGHTS
Author(s) -
Tudor Tănăsescu
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
agora international journal of juridical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2067-7677
pISSN - 1843-570X
DOI - 10.15837/aijjs.v10i2.2802
Subject(s) - human rights , torture , international human rights law , political science , law , convention , fundamental rights , charter , public administration
The Council of Europe represents the main regional/European international intergovernmental organization in which the most efficient mechanisms for guaranteeing and protecting human rights have been initiated and developed.The mechanisms implemented by this organization, aiming to protect and guarantee human rights, established through the conventional judicial tools adopted by the Council of Europe are: The European Court for Human Rights (jurisdictional mechanism), established by the European Convention on Human Rights, the conventional non-jurisdictional mechanisms for monitoring, as well as the system of regularly reporting and that of the collective complaints, employed by the European Committee for social rights, created based on the European Social Charter and its two protocols of 1991 and 1995, and the preventive control based on inquiries carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, based on the European Convention of the Prevention of Torture.Added to these some extra-conventional mechanisms are considered, such as The European Commission against racism and intolerance and The Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe.