Council of Europe conventions/treaties are also open for signature to non-member states, thus facilitating equal co-operation with countries outside Europe. The Council of Europe's most famous achievement is the European Convention on Human Rights, which was adopted in 1950 following a report by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, and followed on from the United Nations 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights' (UDHR). The Convention created the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The Court supervises compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights and thus functions as the highest European court. It is to this court that Europeans can bring cases if
Congress of the Council of Europe Official website of the CEMR Official website of the AEBR Official website of the CALRE Priorities of the Congress 2013–2016 Statutary Resolution 94(3) Statutary Resolution (2011)2 and the revised Charter of the Conress Rules of Procedure Resolution 307(2010)on the monitoring procedure Resolution 306(2010) on the observation of elections Resolution 353(2013)on post-monitoring and post-observation dialogue Congress of the Council of Europe The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (CLRA) is the pan-European political assembly representing local and regional authorities from the forty-seven member states of the Council of Europe. Its role is to promote local and regional democracy, improve local and