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    The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international...
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    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...
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  • Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to respect for one's "private and family life, his home and his correspondence"...
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  • The European Union's (EU) Treaty of Lisbon, in force since 1 December 2009, requires the EU to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)...
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    incorporate into UK law the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights. The Act makes a remedy for breach of a Convention right available in UK...
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  • Fundamental Rights of the European Union Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings European Convention on Nationality European Charter for...
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  • member states, the European Union itself had not yet joined the Convention on Human Rights as of 2011. The history of human rights in Europe is marked by a...
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  • Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides the right to freedom of expression and information. A fundamental aspect of this right...
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  • the American Convention on Human Rights for the Americas of 1969, in force since 1978; and the European Convention on Human Rights for Europe of 1950, in...
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  • is the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic litigation. Codification of human rights is recent...
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  • Andrew Williams". European Journal of International Law. 24 (4): 1187–1193. doi:10.1093/ejil/cht063. European Convention on Human Rights Guide for the Civil...
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  • Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights is a provision of the European Convention which protects the right to a fair trial. In criminal law...
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  • European Charter on Human Rights may refer to: The European Convention on Human Rights adopted by the Council of Europe which came into force in 1950...
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  • Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits torture, and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". Article 3 – Prohibition of...
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  • European Convention of Human Rights Act 2003 is an act of the Irish parliament, the Oireachtas, which gave further effect to the European Convention on...
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  • Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Art.5 ECHR for short) provides that everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. Liberty...
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  • Protocol 11 to the European Convention on Human Rights, individuals did not have direct access to the European Court of Human Rights; they had to apply...
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    Human Rights was signed in 1949. The European Convention on Human Rights (1954) places Turkey under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights...
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  • Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights sets limits on criminalisation, forbidding ex post facto criminalisation by signatory countries. No...
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  • Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights lists the prohibited grounds against which discrimination in illegal. The text states that "The...
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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...
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  • 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...
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  • Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. This includes the freedom to change...
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  • Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights allows contracting states to derogate from certain rights guaranteed by the Convention in a time of "war...
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  • Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits slavery and forced labour. Conscription, national service, prison labour, service exacted...
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  • Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights protects the right to freedom of assembly and association, including the right to form trade unions...
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    treaties, including the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR) of 1953. Provisions...
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  • In the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 2 protects the right to life. The article contains a limited exception for the cases of lawful executions...
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    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets...
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    concerning assisted suicide is incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Right to respect for private and family life) The second...
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