60th Anniversary of the European Convention of Human Rights
October 24, 2010 1:12 AM   Subscribe

On November 4, 1950, the European Convention of Human Rights was signed in Rome. This site was created as part of the celebration, and apart from the text of the Convention itself it offers landmark judgements and other related information.
posted by rjs (7 comments total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
Not the same thing, but I quite liked this video rundown of the similarly-provisioned Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
posted by Rhaomi at 1:29 AM on October 24, 2010


Article 9 ‐ Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

You have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. You have the right to practise your religion at home and in public and to change your religion if you want.


And yet burqa bans are being passed across Europe.

As is often the case, the lofty rhetoric coming from pan-European organs fails to match the actions of individual European states. Nor do individual states seem very much bothered by these grand declarations. "Europe" is still very much more of an idea than an actual thing.
posted by three blind mice at 2:16 AM on October 24, 2010


Thanks, some of their "resources for educators" may come in handy.
posted by ServSci at 5:51 AM on October 24, 2010


Thanks for that link Rhaomi [and rjs] I keep the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on my fridge and was wondering how these two were related.
posted by jessamyn at 7:47 AM on October 24, 2010


- deportation of a state’s own nationals or denying them entry andf the collective deportation of foreigners.

Unless of course they're Roma or some other sort of "undesirables".
posted by qvantamon at 7:52 AM on October 24, 2010


"And yet burqa bans are being passed across Europe."

Set against that: "The European Council's Human Rights Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, has warned that a burqa ban would only increase the tension between religious communities. Human rights conventions only allow controls on religious freedom in the interest of public safety or the preservation of democracy. Hammarberg says that is not the case in this situation."

These bans are likely to result in an ECHR case. The case is likely to invalidate them. At that time, please thank the Council of Europe and remember that just as US states do things that get overturned in the Supreme Court the ECHR is made to overrule the temporary idiocies of CoE states.
posted by jaduncan at 10:11 AM on October 24, 2010


'Unless of course they're Roma or some other sort of "undesirables".'

See above, and note that France has already been threatened with legal action by the EU for discrimination. Both of your arguments aren't really the arguments against the ECHR that you appear to believe they are.
posted by jaduncan at 10:19 AM on October 24, 2010


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