The Council of Europe and its consecration regulations and protection of human rights

• Author: Tudor Tanasescu
• Position: Law Faculty, 'Bioterra' University from Bucharest, Romania
• Pages: 172-180

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www .juridicaljournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 4 (2014), pp. 172-181

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THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND ITS CONSECRATION REGULATIONS AND

PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

T. Tnsescu

Tudor Tnsescu

Law Faculty, „Bioterra” University from Bucharest, Romania

* Coresponden: Tudor Tnsescu, str. Pescruului nr.3, Bl. B-24, Sc.3, Et. 6, Ap.145,

Sector 2, Bucureti, România.

E-mail: tanasescutudor@yahoo.com

Abstract: The Council of Europe is the main international organization with vocation

intergovernmental regional/European which has the fundamental objective consecration and

protection of human rights. The Organization shall constitute the institutional framework in

which had been initiated and developed, under the aspect its rules and mechanisms, the best

international system in human rights domain, European system consecration and protection of

human rights.

Main conventional legal instruments in the promotion and protection of human rights

domain at the European level, adopted within the framework of the Council of Europe, on the

basis of which have been created and the institutions and mechanisms specific to this field

are: the Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, European

Social Charter and the European Convention on indefeasibility war c rimes and crimes against

humanity, European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading

treatment or, fr amework Conve ntion for the protection of ethnic minorities national, and so

on.

Keywords: The Council of Europe, human rights, consecration, protection,

European Conventional tools.

Introduction

European system for the protection of human rights is currently the most effective and

efficient system of protection and guarantee, through specific mechanisms, human rights and

its fundamental

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freedoms. This was done, in the main, within the institutional framework of

the Council of Europe, in close liaison with the United Nations, afte rwards being developed

and at the European Union level and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

European States, members of the Council of Europe, support and promote through

their national laws the consecrated values and protected by European legal instruments in the

human rights domain.

The Council of Europe is currently main intergovernmental international organization

at European level which has the consecration main missions and defense of human rights.

Setting up of the National Council of Europe the surrounding with the attainment of united

Europe under i nstitutional aspect, through the creation of European organizations covering

political and economic integration of the states in the region.

The organization has been set up in London on 5 May 1949, by the representatives of

ten European

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countries that have signe d the Council of Europe

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. Creating organization has

been determined by the need for expressed by the Member States to preserve “ moral values

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Scuna Stelian, Inter national law of human rights. Unive rsity Course, All. Beck Publishing H ouse, Bucharest,

2003, p.5 4; Tnsescu Tudor, International law of human rights. University Course, Sitech Publishing House,

Craiova, 2013, p. 59.

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Bel gium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemb ourg, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Norway and Sweden.

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The text of the Statutes in the Official Gazette, Part I, no. 238 of 4 October 1993.