Council of Europe - Migration Department

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Council of Europe - Migration Department

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The Council was set up to:

defend human rights, parliamentary democracy and the rule of law,
develop continent-wide agreements to standardise member countries' social and legal practices,
promote awareness of a European identity based on shared values and cutting across different cultures.

Since 1989, its main job has become:

acting as a political anchor and human rights watchdog for Europe's post-communist democracies,
assisting the countries of central and eastern Europe in carrying out and consolidating political, legal and constitutional reform in parallel with economic reform,
providing know-how in areas such as human rights, local democracy, education, culture and the environment.