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Human rights in Europe are generally upheld. However, several human rights infringements exist, ranging from the treatment of asylum seekers [1] to police brutality.The 2012 Amnesty International Annual Report points to problems in several European countries. [2]
The largest party, the right-wing Swiss People's Party, said Switzerland should withdraw from the Council of Europe, which seeks to promote human rights in Europe and beyond, calling the court's ...
The European Court of Human Rights, which enforces the European Convention on Human Rights, is the best known body of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe (CoE) (French: Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. [9]
The Court made awards under Article 41 of the European Convention on Human Rights (just satisfaction) that were substantially lower than those it made in past cases of unlawful detention, in view of the fact that the detention scheme was devised in the face of a public emergency and as an attempt to reconcile the need to protect the United ...
The U.N. human rights chief used a special debate on Tuesday about burnings of the Quran in Sweden and other European countries to tread a fine line between freedom of expression and respect for ...
The case - filed in September 2020 against the 27 EU member states as well as Britain, Switzerland, Norway, Russia and Turkey - is the largest climate case ever to be heard by the European Court ...
In its history, the EU has on multiple occasions imposed sanctions on other countries for human rights violations. Some of the examples include an arm embargo imposed on China since 1989 for the Tiananmen Square Massacre, [2] or asset freezes on certain officials in Iran who repressed and tortured human right activists. [3]
The current Commissioner - Michael O'Flaherty. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent and impartial non-judicial institution established in 1999 by the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, to promote awareness of and respect for human rights in the council's 46 member states.