European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) is the educational platform of the Council of Europe for legal professionals. It aims to educate judges, lawyers and prosecutors about human rights standards in Europe. Apart from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), HELP covers other instruments like the European Social Charter (ESC) or Council of Europe Conventions in key areas like data protection or labour rights. Furthermore, with EU support, HELP includes the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and relevant EU law or jurisprudence in the courses specifically developed for EU countries.

A wide range of training resources on the ECHR, developed and collected under the HELP Programme, is available on-line in English, where some of them are translated into the national languages of Council of Europe countries. The e-learning platform is available for free online.

Here is a list of current online courses:

• Admissibility Criteria (also in Turkish) 
• Alternative measures to detention
• Anti-discrimination
• Asylum and the ECHR (also in Turkish) 
• Business and Human Rights
• Child-friendly Justice and Children's Rights
• Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
• Data Protection and Privacy Rights
• Family Law
• Fight Against Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia and Transphobia
• Freedom of Expression (also in Turkish) 
• Hate Crime and Hate Speech
• International Cooperation on Criminal Matters
• Introduction to the ECHR (also in Turkish) 
• Labour Rights as Human Rights
• Pre-trial Investigation and the ECHR
• Prohibition of Ill-treatment
• Property Rights
• Reasoning of Criminal Judges
• Right to Liberty and Security 
• Right to Respect for Private and Family Life
• Right to the Integrity of the Person (Bioethics)
• Transitional Justice and Human Rights
• Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence

► Further information on HELP

► Access to online courses

Source: Council of Europe

13.03.2018