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|language=English, French |sec_gen = Thorbjørn Jagland |leader_title1 = Deputy Secretary General |leader_name1 = Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni |leader_title2 = President of the Parliamentary Assembly |leader_name2 = Anne Brasseur |leader_title3 = President of the Committee of Ministers |leader_name3 = Edmond Panariti |leader_title4 = President of the Congress |leader_name4 = Jean-Claude Frécon |leader_title5 = Commissioner for Human Rights |leader_name5 = Nils Muižnieks |formation=Treaty of London 1949 |website=(www.coe.int ) }} The Council of Europe (CoE; (フランス語:Conseil de l'Europe)), founded in 1949, is a regional intergovernmental organisation whose stated goal is to promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in its 47 member states, covering 820 million citizens. The organisation is separate from the 28-nation European Union, though sometimes confused with it, in part because they share the European flag. Unlike the European Union, the Council of Europe cannot make binding laws. The best known body of the Council of Europe is the European Court of Human Rights, which enforces the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council of Europe's work has resulted in standards, charters and conventions to facilitate cooperation between European countries as an advisory body. Its two statutory bodies are the Committee of Ministers, comprising the foreign ministers of each member state, and the Parliamentary Assembly, composed of members of the national parliaments of each member state. The Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent institution within the Council of Europe, mandated to promote awareness of and respect for human rights in the member states. The Secretary General heads the secretariat of the organisation. The headquarters of the Council of Europe are in Strasbourg, France. English and French are its two official languages. The Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Congress also use German, Italian, and Russian for some of their work. == History == In a speech at the University of Zurich on 19 September 1946, Sir Winston Churchill called for a "kind of United States of Europe" and the creation of a Council of Europe.〔, including audio extracts〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ena.lu/the_zurich_speech-020100043.html ) Including full transcript〕 He had spoken of a Council of Europe as early as 1943 in a radio broadcast.〔 Including audio extracts〕 The future structure of the Council of Europe was discussed at a specific congress of several hundred leading politicians, government representatives and civil society in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1948. There were two schools of thought competing: some favoured a classical international organization with representatives of governments, while others preferred a political forum with parliamentarians. Both approaches were finally combined through the creation of the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly under the Statute of the Council of Europe. This dual intergovernmental and inter-parliamentary structure was later copied for the European Communities, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The Council of Europe was founded on 5 May 1949 by the Treaty of London. The Treaty of London or the Statute of the Council of Europe was signed in London on that day by ten states: Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Many other states followed, especially after the democratic transitions in central and eastern Europe during the early 1990s, and the Council of Europe now includes all European states except Belarus,〔See Applicants section.〕 Kazakhstan,〔 Vatican City〔The Holy See is currently observer to the CoE Committee of Ministers.〕 and the European states with limited recognition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Council of Europe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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