Given the urgent need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and concern regarding insufficient climate action and ambition across the globe, NGOs and individuals are increasingly turning to the courts to force States, public authorities, and private entities to increase their climate...

This paper is concerned with the Convention’s “democracy clause,” that is Article 3 of Protocol No. 1, which provides for the right to free elections. Why should it be described as a “democracy clause” and what is its significance for today? The paper first sketches out the drafting...

Dans le contexte de l’actuelle communauté internationale et des relations internationales actuelles, en plein changement et de grande complexité, le droit international public se trouve en plein processus de renouvellement et d’accentuation de son caractère humanitaire. Il apparaît comme...

An important role, in promoting and assuring the procedural guideline consisting in the fair trial in an optimum and foreseeable time, has the Council of Europe Organization through its special Commission for the Efficiency of Justice/Commission européenne pour l'efficacité de la justice. In...

The right to private and family life is one of the fundamental human rights enshrined in Article 8 of European Convention on Human Rights, generically called „right to respect privacy and family life”, protecting a wide range of interests of personal nature. The essential foundation of these...

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits torture, and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". There are no exceptions or limitations on this right. This provision usually applies, apart from torture, to cases of severe police violence and poor conditions in...

European Convention on Human Rights focuses on the concept of state responsibility, but also the responsibility of the Community as a result of actions taken by EU institutions and the responsibility of Member States, i.e. the actions taken by state authorities in exercise of the powers of the...

This paper is primarily about how the EU -European Union- dealt with and further deals with its role in promoting the human rights within the context of its internal human rights policy. In this context, the results of the potential evolutions regarding the possession of a binding Charter of...

Статья посвящена анализу применения судами общей юрисдикции при уголовном судопроизводстве постановлений Европейского суда по правам человека и норм...