Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) website

The European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals in the European Union member states (HELP in the EU) supports legal professionals to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level and through cross-border training, mainly referring to the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights (the Charter), the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter and relevant EU and Council of Europe Law via a series of online courses. The HELP online courses are addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors and lawyers). They cover various human rights related topics, reflecting the different areas of work of the Council of Europe. If you are interested in a course or another, you simply need to register in order to access the website resources. An explanatory document is available to make it easier for new persons to find their way around the site. The online courses can be taken as: 

• Selfstudy courses, available publicly for unlimited access to anyone who creates an account on the HELP online platform. If you would like to take any of the HELP courses for selflearning, just log-in with your HELP account on the HELP online platform and click on the language code under the picture of the course that you would like to take.
• Tutored courses organised in cooperation with a national partner institution, usually national training institutions for judges and prosecutors (NTIs) or Bar associations (BAs). The HELP tutored courses are facilitated/moderated by a HELP certified tutor, who was trained by the HELP Secretariat. Successful participants in HELP tutored courses are certified jointly by the HELP Programme and the national partner institution. If you are a legal professional and you would like to take a tutored course, get in touch with the NTI or BA in your country, through the HELP Focal and Info Points. 

The following courses are available: 

1. Access to Justice for women 
2. Admissibility criteria for applications submitted to the European Court of Human Rights 
3. Alternative measures to detention and community sanctions 
4. Alternatives to Immigration Detention 
5. Asylum and the European Convention on Human Rights 
6. Business and Human Rights 
7. Child-friendly Justice 
8. Combating trafficking in human beings 
9. Counterfeiting of Medical Products and Crimes against Public Health (available only as a tutored course) 
10. CPT Standards 
11. Data Protection and Privacy Rights 
12. Family Law and Human Rights 
13. Fight Against Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia and Transphobia 
14. Freedom of Expression 
15. Hate Crime and Hate Speech 
16. Human Rights in Sport 
17. Internal Displacement 
18. International Cooperation on Criminal Matters 
19. Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights 
20. Key Human Rights Principles in Biomedicine 
21. Labour Rights as Human Rights 
22. Pre Trial Investigation and the European Convention on Human Rights 
23. Procedural Safeguards in Criminal Proceedings and Victims' Rights 
24. Prohibition of Ill-Treatment in Law Enforcement, Security and Other Coercive Contexts 
25. Protection and Safety of Journalists 
26. Property Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights 
27. Radicalisation Prevention 
28. Reasoning of Criminal Judgments 
29. Refugee and Migrant Children 
30. Right to Liberty and Security - Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights 
31. Right to the Integrity of the Person (Bioethics) 
32. Right to Respect for Family and Private Life - Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights 
33. Rights of Persons with Disabilities 
34. Transitional Justice and Human Rights 
35. Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence.