It is with great pleasure and pride that we announce that on October 1, 2024, one of the founders of the Sunflowers Foundation, Dr. Anna Adamska-Gallant, was elected as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

The European Court of Human Rights is an international court established in 1959. It hears individual or state applications for violations of civil and political rights as defined by the European Convention on Human Rights. Since 1998, it has ruled as a permanent court, and individuals can address it directly. The Court has dealt with hundreds of thousands of applications since its establishment. Its rulings are binding on the countries concerned and have led to changes in the legislation and administrative practice of governments in a wide range of areas. The Court’s jurisprudence makes the Convention a modern and powerful living instrument for confronting new challenges and strengthening the rule of law and democracy in Europe.

The Court is based in Strasbourg, in the Human Rights Building designed by British architect Lord Richard Rogers in 1995. – a building whose image is known around the world. From here, the Court monitors the human rights of 700 million Europeans in the 46 member states of the Council of Europe that have ratified the Convention.