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Courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights (detail). The European Court of Human Rights is an international tribunal established for enforcement of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is an organ of the Council of Europe and judges are elected to the Court by the Council's Parliamentary Assembly in respect of each Member State ...
Turkey the property rights of Greek-Cypriot refugees displaced by an invading Turkish army were addressed. [22] In 2003 Turkey paid Ms. Loizidou compensation (of over $1 million) as ruled by the European Court of Human Rights. [23]
The convention established the European Court of Human Rights (generally referred to by the initials ECtHR). Any person who feels their rights have been violated under the convention by a state party can take a case to the court. Judgments finding violations are binding on the states concerned and they are obliged to execute them.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, [1] is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets 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 enumerated in the convention or its ...
This list contains cases of the European Commission of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) and United Nations Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) related to LGBTQ people.
Case law of the European Convention on Human Rights, argued before the European Court of Human Rights. Make sure that cases are sorted into their proper country subcategories to make the navigation easier. If the specific categories do not exist, do not hesitate to create new ones following the format of the existing ones.
However, the article covers an open-ended list of prohibited grounds for discrimination and has been expanded over time to include such grounds as sexual orientation and gender identity. [1] [2] In the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the interpretation of the article has expanded over time to include indirect discrimination. [3]
The ECHR in Strasbourg. Prior to the entry into force on 1 June 2010 of Protocol No. 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the EU could not accede to the convention, and thus the European Court of Human Rights did not have jurisdiction to rule on cases brought against the EU.