The HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) online courses are free and hosted on the HELP online platform.
They 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.
Although the primary target group of the Council of Europe HELP courses are legal professionals (judges, prosecutors and lawyers), some interdisciplinary courses may involve other professionals (health and medical specialists, prison and probation staff, law enforcement, journalists, Ombudsperson staff, NGOs, etc.).
Explore all HELP (Human Rights Educationfor Legal Professionals) online courses, which are accessible for free.
Course list
Access to Justice for women
Admissibility criteria for applications submitted to the European Court of Human Rights
Alternative measures to detention and community sanctions
Alternatives to Immigration Detention
Asylum and Human Rights
Business and Human Rights
Child-friendly Justice
Combating trafficking in human beings
CPT Standards
Data Protection and Privacy Rights
Ethics for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers
Family Law and Human Rights
Fight Against Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia and Transphobia
Freedom of Expression
Gathering and Use of Evidence in Counter Terrorism Cases
Hate Crime and Hate Speech
Human Rights in Sport
Internal Displacement
International Cooperation on Criminal Matters
Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights
Key Human Rights Principles in Biomedicine
Labour Rights as Human Rights
Pharmaceutical crime and the MEDICRIME Convention
Pre Trial Investigation and the European Convention on Human Rights
Procedural Safeguards in Criminal Proceedings and Victims' Rights
Prohibition of Ill-Treatment in Law Enforcement, Security and Other Coercive Contexts
Protection and Safety of Journalists
Property Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights
Radicalisation Prevention
Reasoning of Criminal Judgments
Refugee and Migrant Children
Right to Liberty and Security - Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Right to the Integrity of the Person (Bioethics)
Right to Respect for Family and Private Life - Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The Environment and Human Rights
Transitional Justice and Human Rights
Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence