1. An overview THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE Launching Conference
”The Social Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Best Western Congress Hotel
Yerevan, Armenia
19-20 September 2017
THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
An overview
“Promoting the social rights of persons with disabilities by building the capacity of Armenian civil society organisations to engage with the Council of Europe monitoring mechanisms” 

2. Human rights
Democracy
Rule of Law

3. Some figures
Today, the CoE is the leading human rights organisation in Europe:
47 Member sates
5 observer states
820 million Europeans
local and regional authorities
225 indigenous languages
324 MPs at the PACE
Over 210 treaties
11 monitoring mechanisms

4. Don’t get confused !

5. Major Achievements abolition of death penalty cybercrime
prevention of torture
human trafficking
social protection (European Social Charter)
sexual exploitation of children
violence against women and domestic violence
protection of national minorities

7. The Council of Europe’s action Strategic triangle

8. Zooming in to the monitoring mechanisms
European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR)
GREVIO
GRETA
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)

9. Thank you for your attention! www.accessrights.org