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Human rights in a positive state
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ISBN: 9781780684253 9781780685311 1780684258 1780685319 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Intersentia

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The European Court of Human Rights has long abandoned the view that human rights merely impose obligations of restraint on State authorities (so-called negative obligations). In addition, States are under positive obligations to take steps to actively protect and ensure the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. While the concept of positive obligations has become increasingly important in the jurisprudence of the European Court, it remains relatively underexplored in the literature. This book goes beyond the existing scholarship by analytically, critically and normatively engaging with the Court's positive obligations case law in a comprehensive and in-depth manner.The book begins by providing an overview of the Court's jurisprudence in this area. Building upon this overview, it brings to the fore the legal methodological consequences attached by the Court to the labels of positive and negative obligations. It moreover critically examines how the Court constructs the distinction between positive and negative obligations, building upon the underlying distinctions between public authorities and private entities, on the one hand, and State action and inaction, on the other. The central argument made in this volume is that in a positive State, in which the authorities have affirmatively intervened in so many areas, it has become increasingly difficult to draw a baseline to properly distinguish between action and inaction. Finally, the author makes suggestions for legal methodological change. This book will prove to be highly valuable for any practitioner or academic interested in the law of the European Convention on Human Rights.Dr Laurens Lavrysen is currently conducting post-doctoral research at Ghent University, Belgium, with a particular focus on the history of the law of the European Convention on Human Rights. This book is based on his PhD research concerning the notion of positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. Dr Lavrysen obtained his doctoral degree from Ghent University in 2016.


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Rights and wrongs under the ECHR
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ISBN: 9781780684185 9781780685427 1780684185 1780685424 Year: 2016 Volume: 78 Publisher: Cambridge Intersentia

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The prohibition of abuse of rights in Article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or Convention) embodies one of the Convention's main principles: its commitment to democracy and democratic values. The provision aims to prevent groups and individuals from successfully invoking fundamental rights and freedoms to justify anti-democratic activities. At the same time it is also one of the Convention's most controversial provisions. There exists a certain tension between human rights protection and the concept of abuse of rights. While human rights essentially aim to promote freedom by affirming the basic rights and freedoms citizens enjoy vis-á-vis state authorities, the abuse clause primarily aims to protect the democratic organisation of the state against groups and individuals invoking these rights with the aim of undermining it. Furthermore, an analysis of the growing body of case law on this topic shows that the interpretation and application of Article 17 ECHR are far from unequivocal. While according to Article 17 ECHR anti-democratic activities may be excluded from the protection of the Convention, clear criteria for determining which activities fit this description are lacking. In addition, the case law covers different methods of application of the abuse clause that seem to be used rather arbitrarily. This has resulted in a rather obscure and inconsistent case-by-case approach. This study seeks to shed light on the prohibition of abuse of rights in Article 17 ECHR in order to contribute to a more coherent interpretation of this provision. To that aim it studies the abuse clause from different perspectives. First, it looks at the historical background of the provision to examine what motivated the drafters to include this prohibition. Then it moves on to the case law of the European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights and to legal doctrine, revealing the difficulties and inconsistencies in the current interpretation of the abuse clause. Next, it analyses the interpretation of prohibitions of abuse in other human rights documents to see whether parallels can be drawn with the interpretation of Article 17 ECHR. Subsequently, it addresses the concepts of 'abuse of rights' and 'militant democracy' and examines the extent to which they offer a framework for understanding the abuse clause. Based on the insights obtained from these different perspectives, this study puts forward a proposal as to how Article 17 ECHR can best be applied in the future.


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The theory, potential and practice of procedural dialogue in the European Convention on Human Rights System
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ISBN: 9781780683751 1780683758 9781780687391 1780687397 Year: 2016 Volume: 77 Publisher: Cambridge Intersentia

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Winner of the 2016 Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award Dialogue is the new buzzword for the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) system. Judges throughout Europe have welcomed and encouraged dialogue, and references to the notion have become commonplace at conferences and in academic writing. Yet although the buzz has intensified, exactly why dialogue can be of added value is not often examined. Nor do those who rely on the notion usually explain how exactly it can be operationalised in a practical sense. This volume dissects the common-sense realisation that dialogue adds value to the Convention system, within which the State Parties, the Court, the Committee of Ministers (Committee), the Parliamentary Assembly (Assembly), and the Commissioner for Human Rights (Commissioner) interact. The question of why dialogue should occur is answered through an account of the way the system is established and how it functions, and of the developments and reform it has experienced. The second aim of the volume is to establish whether Convention dialogue does indeed live up to its potential added value. For this purpose, 26 procedures and 'procedural steps' are investigated in the light of 'indicators of dialogue'. The procedures include third-party interventions, the pilot-judgment procedure, and the Committee's Human Rights meetings. Both the procedures' dialogic potential on paper and their 'dialogicness' in practice are assessed, based in part on interviews with inter alia the Court's judges, agents representing the states before the Court, and persons monitoring the execution of the Court's judgments. This volume will be of use to those who are interested in the notion of (Convention) dialogue and its theoretical underpinnings, and those who would like to know more about Convention-related procedures, the execution of the Court's judgments, and the role that the Assembly and the Commissioner can play in the Convention system.

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Human rights --- Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms --- AİHS --- Avrupa İnsan Hakları Sözles̜mesi --- CEDU --- Convención Europea para la Protección de los Derechos Humanos y de las Libertades Fundamentales --- Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos --- Convenția Europeană a Drepturilor Omului --- Convenția Europeană Pentru Drepturile Omului și Protecția Persoanelor Care Necesită Protecție Internațională --- Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales --- Convention européenne des droits de l'homme --- Convenzione europea dei diritti dell'uomo --- E.M.R.K. --- EKPC --- EMRK --- ESDA --- Euroopa Inimõiguste Konventsioon --- Euroopan ihmisoikeussopimus --- Eurōpaïkē Symvasē --- Eurōpaikē Symvasē Dikaiōmatōn tou Anthrōpou --- Europäische Konvention zum Schutze der Menschenrechte und Grundfreiheiten --- Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention --- Europakonventionen om mänskliga rättigheter --- European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms --- European Convention of Human Rights --- European Convention on Human Rights --- European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms --- Europees Verdrag voor de Rechten van de Mens --- Europeiska konventionen om de mänskliga rättigherna --- Europeiska konventionen om skydd för de mänskliga rättigheterna och de grundläggande friheterna --- Europeiska människorättskonventionen --- Europejska Konwencja o Ochronie Praw Człowieka i Podstawowych Wolności --- Europejska Konwencja Praw Człowieka --- Europese Conventie voor de Rechten van de Mens --- Europese Verdrag tot Bescherming van de Rechten van de Mens en de Fundamentele Vrijheden --- EVRM --- Evropeĭska konvent︠s︡ii︠a︡ za pravata na choveka --- Evropeĭska konvent︠s︡ii︠a︡ za zashtita na pravata na choveka i osnovnite svobodi --- Evropeĭskai︠a︡ Konvent︠s︡ii︠a︡ o zashchite prav cheloveka i osnovnykh svobod --- Evropska konvencija za zaštitu ljudskih prava i osnovnih sloboda --- İHAS --- İ.H.A.S. --- İnsan Hakları Avrupa Sözleşmesi --- Konvencija za zaštita na čovekovite prava i osnovni slobodi --- Konvencijah o varstvu človekovih pravic in temeljnih svoboščin (1950 November 5) --- Konvensjon om beskyttelse av menneskerettighetene og de grunnleggende friheter --- Konvention zum Schutze der Menschenrechte und Grundfreiheiten --- Konvent︠s︡ii︠a︡ o zashchite prav cheloveka i osnovnykh svobod --- Konwencja Europejska --- Konwencja o Ochronie Praw Człowieka i Podstawowych Wolności --- Konwencja Praw Człowieka --- Lajnah al-Ūrūbbīyah li-Ḥuqūq al-Insān --- Rom-Konvention für Menschenrechte --- Verdrag tot Bescherming van de Rechten van de Mens en de Fundamentele Vrijheden --- Yleissopimus ihmisoikeuksien ja perusvapauksien suojaamiseksi --- European Union --- Droits de l'homme (droit européen) --- Droits de l'homme (droit international) --- Question préjudicielle (droit européen) --- Procédure (droit européen) --- European Court on Human Rights --- Cour européenne des droits de l'homme --- Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales (1950) --- Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms (1950 November 5) --- European Court of Human Rights --- Conseil de l'Europe. --- European Court of Human Rights. --- Human rights - Europe

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