CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 7 mars 2008

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   168 7.3.2008   Press release issued by the Registrar   180 children to plant their “human rights tree” at European Court of Human Rights   180 schoolchildren from across Europe – set to be the human rights ambassadors of the future – will be planting a symbolic tree at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Monday 10 March 2008.   The children, aged 9 to 12 years, from France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Russia, will plant the tree in the grounds of the Court at 11.15 a.m. (local time), at the closing ceremony of a special awareness-raising project.   The project, entitled “A Child’s View of Human Rights”, aims to encourage the children to become human rights ambassadors. It is being organised by the association Regards d’Enfants , under the auspices of the Council of Europe.   The children have been working on the project in their respective schools since September 2007; however, the main focus of activities is this weekend and Monday. A busy programme of creative workshops has been scheduled for Sunday 9 March. The children will be able to write their own human rights slogans on a wall of chocolate and different groups will be using music, art, film and theatre to convey and deepen their understanding of human rights issues. Each group will then place an object symbolising their work on each of the 18 branches of the human rights tree; one branch for each main article of the European Convention on Human Rights.   On Monday 10 March, from 9 a.m., the children will be at the Court, presenting the results of their work to Françoise Tulkens, Section President of the Court, and Philippe Boillat, Director General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe.     ***   Press contacts Emma Hellyer (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Paramy Chanthalangsy (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 54 91) Sania Ivedi (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 59 45)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.