General presentation
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" brochure is 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)
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- Azerbaijani
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
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- Czech
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- 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
Human Rights Building
The 20th anniversary of the Human Rights Building
The Court is based in Strasbourg, in the Human Rights Building.
Designed by the British architect Lord Richard Rogers (2007 Pritzker Prize Laureate), this highly symbolic and emblematic building is part of the French cultural heritage and was awarded the “Architecture contemporaine remarquable” label in 2015.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Human Rights Building, the Court staged an exhibition in September 2015, inaugurated by President Spielmann in the presence, among others, of Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Ivan Harbour, who worked on the Building’s design and is now a partner in the architectural firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.