European Court of Human Rights

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Region: Western Europe, grade: 1,0, University of Munster (Politikwissenschaft - European Studies), course: European Institutions, language: English, abstract: Headquartered in Strasbourg France, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) was established to in 1959 enforce the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concluded under the aegis of the Council of Europe. 1 The Court, by absorbing the expansive provisions of the European Convention alongside its "e;living document"e; philosophy of interpretation, has irrefutably become a powerful international organization in the area of human rights. Indeed, the Court through its progressive social agenda upheld by the forty-six member states of the Council has grown into one of the largest, and perhaps most exemplary international judicial bodies. [...]