Norway and the Council of Europe – bringing human rights from the conference table to your kitchen table

The Council of Europe works for you. We want to give visibility to the role, standards and work of the Council of Europe in its member states, to show how Council of Europe membership has helped achieve particular results or changes. Our aim, through a variety of events and actions, is to highlight ways in which the Council of Europe’s action has helped improve the life of individuals and contributed to improving people’s enjoyment of fundamental rights.

Helge Seland, Ambassadør, Norges faste representant til Europarådet

Whether it is the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights at national level, or the Council of Europe's work in many fields, such as working to abolish the death penalty or to ensure freedom of expression and freedom of the media, or to adress online and technology-facilitated violence against women through the Istanbul Convention and Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, the Council of Europe has achieved a lot since 1949. View achievements »

Events

15 May 2024

• NRK Frokostradioen interview (på norsk): Ambassador Helge Seland, Norway's permanent representative to the Council of Europe speaks to NRK Frokostradioen about the Council of Europe and its 75th anniversary.

6 May 2024

• Kristiansand Democracy and Human Rights Conference 2024 on the theme “Sustain and defend Democracy and Human Rights in Europe 2024”; see Programme.

21 April 2023

• An op-ed article by the Deputy Secretary General was published in the Norwegian newspaper, Dagbladet : Det er på hverdager ting skjer, Debattartikkel av Bjørn Berge, visegeneralsekretær i Europarådet.