General presentation of the European Court of Human Rights - ECHR
Information documents
The Court in brief brochure is an introduction to the Court and the key dates in its history. It gives a short summary of the Convention and its guarantees and prohibitions
This is an educational publication on the Convention which presents the Convention, its development and its Articles and Protocols in an easy-to-read style
The ECHR in 50 questions answers frequently asked questions on the Convention and the Court
The Questions and Answers are provided for the benefit of potential applicants.
This pamphlet, describing the various stages of the procedure by which the Court examines an application, is intended to answer the main questions that applicants might ask, especially once their application has been sent to the Court.
This simplified version of selected Articles from the Convention tends to present the main rights and freedoms.
The translations into non-official languages come from various sources. Only the English and French versions are authentic.
- Albanian
- Arabic (without Prot. 15 & 16)
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- French
- Finnish
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Irish (without Prot. 1, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13 & 16)
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Maltese
- Montenegrin
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
The flow chart indicates the progress of a case through the different judicial formations. In the interests of readability, it does not include certain stages in the procedure – such as communication of an application to the respondent State, consideration of a re-hearing request by the Panel of the Grand Chamber and friendly settlement negotiations.
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Montenegrin
- Polish
- Portugese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
This flow chart indicates the progress of a case by judicial formation.
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Montenegrin
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
The different architectural designs
Amendments to the winning project
The different architectural designs
Around the Human Rights Building
The Human Rights Building today
