The European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) protects the rights of more than 700 million* people in Europe. It sets out a list of specific basic rights and freedoms that all Europeans ...
Poland has to explain how it intends to abide by its obligations to the European Convention on Human Rights after the country’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled that part of the convention clashed with ...
The Russian government has called on President Vladimir Putin to denounce the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, according to a resolution published on an official website on Monday.
Prime Minister Robert Abela’s statement that when Malta takes over the presidency of the Council of Europe it will seek a reform of what he said was an “outdated” European Convention on Human Rights ...
An agreement between Dublin and London on Troubles’ legacy cases must fully honour the European Convention on Human Rights, Tánaiste Simon Harris will say on Friday. Mr Harris’s pointed words, to be ...
On 8 March 1951, sixty years ago this month, the UK ratified the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Two things are often said about what was expected of the Convention back in 1951. First, it ...
It is bitterly ironic that in this, the 800th anniversary year of Magna Carta, there are threats from the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. This convention is Europe’s own ...
The European Convention on Human Rights celebrates its 75th birthday today with UK membership a topic of mainstream political debate for the first time in its history. Human rights campaign group ...
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