Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 December 1973.
Mr William Molloy
, Ealing North
12:00,
4 December 1973
Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to consider the resolution passed at the Council of Europe on this subject to see whether he should support it when it goes to the Council of Ministers?
An international organisation of member states (45 at the time of writing) in the European region; not to be confused with the Council of the European Union, nor the European Council.
Founded on 5 May, 1949 by the Treaty of London, and currently seated in Strasbourg, membership is open to all European states which accept the princple of the rule of law and guarantee fundamental human rights and freedoms to their citizens. In 1950, this body created the European Convention on Human Rights, which laid out the foundation principles and basis on which the European Court of Human Rights stands.
Today, its primary activities include charters on a range of human rights, legal affairs, social cohesion policies, and focused working groups and charters on violence, democracy, and a range of other areas.
An informal reference to the Council of the European Union.
