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  2. Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights

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    Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ETS No. 177) is an anti-discrimination treaty of the Council of Europe.It was adopted on November 4, 2000, in Rome and entered into force on April 1, 2005, after tenth ratification.

  3. Protected group - Wikipedia

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    Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that discrimination is prohibited on "any ground" (French: sans distinction aucune) but also lists several examples. This protection was expanded by Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights which states that all law must also applied without discrimination, and not just ...

  4. European Convention on Human Rights - Wikipedia

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    The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) [1] is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the newly formed Council of Europe, [2] the convention entered into force on 3 September 1953.

  5. European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights

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    Protocol No. 14 of the ECHR entered into force on 1 June 2010. It allows the European Union to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights. [3] On 5 April 2013, negotiators from the European Union and the Council of Europe finalised a draft agreement for the accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights.

  6. Human rights in Germany - Wikipedia

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    Human rights in Germany enjoy a high level of protection, ... Protocol 12 (ECHR) ... ("Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution").

  7. Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights

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    Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) provides for two constituent rights: the right to marry and the right to found a family. [1] With an explicit reference to ‘national laws governing the exercise of this right’, Article 12 raises issues as to the doctrine of the margin of appreciation, and the related principle of subsidiarity most prominent in European Union Law.

  8. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of ...

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    The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, otherwise known as the European Convention on Bioethics or the European Bioethics Convention, is an international instrument aiming to prohibit the misuse of innovations in biomedicine and to protect human dignity.

  9. International human rights law - Wikipedia

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    International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law.