Human Rights and Criminal Procedure - the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

Length of court proceedings in the member states of the Council of Europe based on the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

Practical impact of the Council of Europe Monitoring Mechanisms

Protecting the right to a fair trial under the European Convention on Human Rights

Protecting the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion under the European Convention on Human Rights

Protecting the right to respect for private and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights

Protecting Migrants under the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter

The Human Rights Free Library Online Platform

The internet is a never-ending source of knowledge and has the immense advantage of being able to reach a large number of beneficiaries with a simple click. Yet, the main issue remains that although there are countless useful and valuable resources, they are scattered and one needs luck and an inspired search method to find them. Many times work is duplicated or hardened by the lack of easy access to information, with at the same time many valuable materials available for free, waiting to be discovered. 

Human rights practitioners rely on knowledge resources to accomplish their work efficiently but often do not know where to find them or where to start looking. Within our dissemination of information mandate, gathering all this information about the available resources and placing it in a centralised platform seemed like the logical step to make, since we believe in the value of free information and in the benefit of having the free resources made easily accessible and largely promoted. 

Free Library Online is a project initiated by EHRA with the intention to gather these free resources available on the internet for the use of practitioners throughout Europe in the field of human rights. 

The platform will act as a hub where the materials we find freely available on the internet and consider useful will be indicated in a categorised manner, easily accessible for consultation.  

 
The materials will be accessible through a link directing the reader to the original website storing them.  Full credit for ownership and copyright, as well as responsibility for the opinions expressed remains with the authors.

Should the owners disagree with indicating their materials on the platform, they can at any time request to have them removed by sending a message at freelibrary@ehra.fr.  

 
The platform will be updated regularly through an ongoing process of research, with links to materials we ourselves have found on the internet and used in our own work. By the end of 2013, we intend to have a fully functional platform with already many resources indexed. 

On the long run, we would also rely on the suggestions made by other practitioners and NGOs, with the scope of developing a truly open and valuable source of practical materials available for everyone working in the field of human rights.

Therefore, if there are resources you consider useful and want to recommend, please fill in our Entry suggestion form with the relevant information. We thank you for your support and hope we can create together a truly useful online resource for human rights practitioners all around Europe.