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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, [1] is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights enumerated in the convention or its ...
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.
Courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights (detail). The European Court of Human Rights is an international tribunal established for enforcement of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is an organ of the Council of Europe and judges are elected to the Court by the Council's Parliamentary Assembly in respect of each Member State ...
[11] [12] In 2007, the Court ruled that Russia was responsible for the killings of a human rights activist, Zura Bitiyeva, and her family. [13] Bitiyeva herself had filed a complaint against Moscow with the Court in 2000 for abuse while in detention, in the then-second case from Chechnya, but she was murdered in 2003 before the ruling was ...
European Court of Human Rights courtroom. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) consists of 17 judges of the ECtHR and is convened in exceptional cases. Its verdicts cannot be appealed. [1]
The relationship between the ECJ and the ECtHR is potentially an issue in European Union law and human rights law.The ECJ rules on EU law while the ECtHR rules on the ECHR, which covers the 46 member states of the Council of Europe.
This list contains cases of the European Commission of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) and United Nations Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) related to LGBTQ people.
The ECtHR ensures compliance with international legal standards regarding derogations from human rights during emergencies. As affirmed in Lawless v. Ireland (no. 3) (1961), the Court has the authority to independently review Article 15 § 1 derogations, ensuring compliance with international legal standards.