The Council of Europe Role: «Bringing Human Rights Home»

Human rights education is an uninterrupted journey that should start in school, continue at university and throughout a professional career. This journey is indispensable because in order to be a reality for all those within the jurisdiction of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, human rights have to be effectively protected and implemented first and foremost at the national level. This is what is meant by «bringing human rights home». This article focused on the Council of Europe’s efforts to support its member states in ensuring that the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is applied at the national level. This support is done through capacity development, mainly for legal professionals, and in the future, law faculties may be targeted as well.