Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights
The Court, based in Strasbourg, was set up as a result of the European Convention on Human Rights, created in 1950. This set out a catalogue of civil and political rights and freedoms. It allows people to lodge complaints against States which have signed up to the Convention for alleged violations of those rights. Although founded in 1950, the Court did not actually come into existence until 1959. It gained its present form as a single European Court of Human Rights when Protocol No. 11 to the ECHR took effect in 1998.
The Court is currently made up of 47 judges, one in principle for every State signed up to the Convention. They are elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and serve for six years. Judges sit on the Court as individuals and do not represent their country. Website: www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home
The Court is currently made up of 47 judges, one in principle for every State signed up to the Convention. They are elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and serve for six years. Judges sit on the Court as individuals and do not represent their country. Website: www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home
- Access to procedures 3
- Appeal / Right to appeal 1
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
- Complementary forms of protection 3
- Country of origin information (COI) 2
- Credibility assessment 2
- Decision on admissibility 5
- Deportation / Forcible return 4
- EU Qualification Directive 1
- Effective remedy 1
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 2
- Expulsion 5
- Family reunification 2
- Forced marriage 1
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 11
- HIV and AIDS 1
- Habeas corpus 1
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
- Immigration Detention 6
- Internal armed conflict 3
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 2
- International protection 1
- Non-refoulement 3
- Prison or detention conditions 5
- Public health 1
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
- Reception 2
- Refoulement 1
- Refugee / Asylum law 2
- Regional instruments 2
- Rejected asylum-seekers 2
- Residence permits / Residency 2
- Returnees 1
- Right to family life 6
- Right to liberty and security 4
- Right to life 1
- Safe third country 4
- Security situation 4
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 1
- Single procedure 1
- Smuggling of persons 1
- Trafficking in persons 1
- Transit 1
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
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