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皇冠体育app Council of Europe is an international organisation for the promotion of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. It was founded by the Treaty of London in 1949 and is based in Strasbourg in France. It has 46 member States, including European Union Member States, but is entirely separate from the European Union.

皇冠体育app European Convention on Human Rights and its protocols

皇冠体育app is an international treaty between the States of the Council of Europe. 皇冠体育app United Kingdom was one of the States that drafted the ECHR and was one of the first States to ratify it in 1951. 皇冠体育app Convention came into force in 1953.

皇冠体育app current version of the Convention incorporates the amendments made by Protocols No. 11, 14 and 15, in 1998, 2010 and 2021 respectively.

皇冠体育app substantive rights and freedoms contained in the Convention are:

• Article 2: the right to life
• Article 3: the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment
• Article 4: the prohibition of slavery and forced labour
• Article 5: the right to liberty and security
• Article 6: the right to a fair trial
• Article 7: the prohibition of retrospective criminal penalties
• Article 8: the right to private and family life
• Article 9: the freedom of thought, conscience and religion
• Article 10: the freedom of expression
• Article 11: the freedom of assembly and association
• Article 12: the right to marry
• Article 13: the right to an effective national remedy for breach of these rights
• Article 14: the prohibition of discrimination in the protection of these rights

皇冠体育app UK has also ratified Protocol No. 13 to the Convention on the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances, as well Protocol No. 1, which contains three additional rights:

• Article 1 of Protocol No.1: the right to free enjoyment of property
• Article 2 of Protocol No.1: the right to education
• Article 3 of Protocol No.1: the right to free and fair elections

皇冠体育app European Court of Human Rights

皇冠体育app European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is an international court which rules on individual or State applications regarding possible violations of the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. 皇冠体育app Court鈥檚 judgments and other information relevant to the UK are publicly available.

皇冠体育app ECtHR also publishes its .

It is assisted in its work by a , which provides legal and administrative support, particularly in the processing and triaging of applications made to the Court.

皇冠体育app Committee of Ministers

皇冠体育app Committee of Ministers is the Council of Europe鈥檚 decision-making body. It is made up of Ministers from the 46 States of the Council of Europe. Amongst other functions, the Committee of Ministers is responsible for supervising the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

It issues and on the implementation of these judgments, on the basis of provided by the States concerned and following a defined set of

皇冠体育app Committee of Ministers is supported in this work by the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

皇冠体育app Committee for the Prevention of Torture

皇冠体育app is a Council of Europe body which organises visits to places of detention, in order to assess how persons deprived of their liberty are treated. 皇冠体育appse places include, amongst others, prisons, juvenile detention centres, police stations, holding centres for immigration detainees, psychiatric hospitals and social care homes.

CPT delegations have unlimited access to places of detention, and the right to move inside such places without restriction. 皇冠体育appy interview persons deprived of their liberty in private and communicate freely with anyone who can provide information.

皇冠体育app UK鈥檚 Response to the Committee for the Prevention of Torture鈥檚 visit to the UK

Annual Reports to the Joint Committee on Human Rights

Every year, the government provides a report to the Parliament鈥檚 Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) which sets out the government鈥檚 record on the implementation of human rights judgments.

皇冠体育app Ministry of Justice has responsibility for the following UN Treaties:

• 皇冠体育app International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• 皇冠体育app International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• 皇冠体育app Convention Against Torture

皇冠体育app UK regularly submits reports to the UN Treaty Bodies and Human Rights Committee in response to UN observations and recommendations. 皇冠体育appy are available below.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

皇冠体育app aims to ensure the protection of civil and political rights. It came into force in 1976.

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

As part of the , the UK agrees to ensure the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, including the rights to education, fair and just conditions of work, an adequate standard of living, the highest attainable standard of health and social security.

Convention Against Torture

皇冠体育app aims to prevent torture and other acts of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment around the world.

皇冠体育app UK has also signed up to the and ratified it in 2003. 皇冠体育app OPCAT established a UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) whose role is to visit places of detention in member States and to make recommendations to the State being visited.

皇冠体育app SPT last visited the UK in 2019, with a subsequent report that the UK responded to. This was followed by a dialogue with the SPT in September 2021.

皇冠体育app OPCAT also requires States to establish one or several independent National Preventive Mechanisms (NPM) to carry out a system of regular visits to all places of detention in order to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

皇冠体育app , established in 2009, is a multi-body mechanism coordinated by a Secretariat. 皇冠体育app membership reflects the UK鈥檚 inspecting and monitoring mechanisms, so includes, for example, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, the Independent Monitoring Board and the Lay Observers.

皇冠体育app 21 members who make up the NPM conducted thousands of monitoring visits and inspections to places of detention in the reporting year. 皇冠体育app NPM produces an annual report which collates their key findings and presents an overview of the situation in UK detention settings. 皇冠体育appse reports are available at the bottom of this page.

Universal Periodic Review

皇冠体育app UN鈥檚 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-review of the human rights records of UN Member States, coordinated by the UN鈥檚 Human Rights Council. 皇冠体育app UPR process takes place over five-year cycles.

Common Core Document

皇冠体育app Common Core Document is a snapshot of the constitutional structure of, and key statistics on, the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies. It is part of all periodic reports from the UK to the UN.

Reports to the United Nations

Annual Reports of the UK鈥檚 National Preventive Mechanism: Monitoring places of detention. 皇冠体育app NPM produces an annual report setting out its findings over the past year.