The European Commission of Human Rights in 1996 under the Presidency of the Swedish Judge, Sture Petrén.

Hearing of the European Court of Human Rights in 1966 under the Presidency of the French Judge, René Samuel Cassin.

In 1966, Pierre Pflimlin, President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, lays the foundation stone of the ‘Palais des Droits de l'Homme’ in Strasbourg, the building destined to house the European Commission and Court of Human Rights. To his right, Eugène Schaus, President of the Committee of Ministers. To his left, Ludovico Benvenuti, outgoing Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.

Karl Ahrens, President of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly from 1983 to 1986.

Group photo of the Heads of State or Government of the member States of the Council of Europe taken at that organisation’s first summit, held in Vienna on 8 and 9 October 1993.

Photo of the Maison de l’Europe (left) and the new Palais de l’Europe (right), taken in October 1976 as building work was taking place inside the new building. The old building was demolished after the inauguration of the Palais de l’Europe in January 1977.

Miguel Ángel Martínez, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1992 to 1996.

The debating chamber in the Maison de l’Europe in Strasbourg, seat of the Council of Europe’s Consultative Assembly from 1950 to 1977.

Road sign for the seat of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.

Louis Jung, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1986 to 1989.