The Ability of European Convention on Human Rights in Preventing Gross Violations of Human Rights

The humanity faced very tragic consequences of war and other cruel teratments from state practices in history. To minimise the human rights violations, international community started to construct human rights protection systems. United Nations was established in 1945. The Universal Declaration of H...

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Main Author: Murat Tumay
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Language:English
Published: Selçuk University 2014-02-01
Series:Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1724742
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description The humanity faced very tragic consequences of war and other cruel teratments from state practices in history. To minimise the human rights violations, international community started to construct human rights protection systems. United Nations was established in 1945. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was followed by main human rights protection treaties and monitoring systems established by those treaties. The European Convention on Human Rights was adopted on 4 November 1950 and entered into force on 3 September 1953. It’s the first international legally binding human rights treaty. The human rights protection system of European Convention is unique comparing with other international treaties. It is the first international system that provides individuals with right to complaint the state for violation of their human rights guaranteed in the Convention. It includes “international common law” feature and also it is self-referential regime. Because of its case law, Court is bound by their previous jurisprudence. This is its common law future. The Council of Europe bodies work independently from courts and legal systems of states` parties. Strasbourg is not appeal court of states parties; it interprets their domestic law and practise only in terms of compatibility with the Convention. The European Convention on Human Rights and its supervisory system have made considerable contributions to the whole human rights development in the world. The question in this study that does the Convention has the effective mechanism to combat with gross human rights violations. Gross and systematic violations are not common in the states parties of the Convention during the last four decades.It is a common view that there is no place for gross violations in so-called democracies of Western Europe. Such practices are confined to dictatorial regimes in other parts of the world. But somehow if gross and mass human rights violations occur in a member state to Convention, have the Convention and its implementation mechanism ability to fight with such violations?
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spelling doaj.art-12a96b25b5ff4850af9a042c766c4fbe2023-09-14T08:49:23ZengSelçuk UniversitySelçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi2667-47502014-02-0131139145154The Ability of European Convention on Human Rights in Preventing Gross Violations of Human RightsMurat Tumay0Selcuk UniversityThe humanity faced very tragic consequences of war and other cruel teratments from state practices in history. To minimise the human rights violations, international community started to construct human rights protection systems. United Nations was established in 1945. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was followed by main human rights protection treaties and monitoring systems established by those treaties. The European Convention on Human Rights was adopted on 4 November 1950 and entered into force on 3 September 1953. It’s the first international legally binding human rights treaty. The human rights protection system of European Convention is unique comparing with other international treaties. It is the first international system that provides individuals with right to complaint the state for violation of their human rights guaranteed in the Convention. It includes “international common law” feature and also it is self-referential regime. Because of its case law, Court is bound by their previous jurisprudence. This is its common law future. The Council of Europe bodies work independently from courts and legal systems of states` parties. Strasbourg is not appeal court of states parties; it interprets their domestic law and practise only in terms of compatibility with the Convention. The European Convention on Human Rights and its supervisory system have made considerable contributions to the whole human rights development in the world. The question in this study that does the Convention has the effective mechanism to combat with gross human rights violations. Gross and systematic violations are not common in the states parties of the Convention during the last four decades.It is a common view that there is no place for gross violations in so-called democracies of Western Europe. Such practices are confined to dictatorial regimes in other parts of the world. But somehow if gross and mass human rights violations occur in a member state to Convention, have the Convention and its implementation mechanism ability to fight with such violations?https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1724742avrupa i̇nsan haklarısözleşmesiyaygın i̇nsan hakları i̇hlalleriavrupa i̇nsan haklarımahkemesii̇nsan hakları i̇hlallerinin önlenmesieuropean convention on human rightsgross human rights violationseuropean court of human rights
spellingShingle Murat Tumay
The Ability of European Convention on Human Rights in Preventing Gross Violations of Human Rights
Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
avrupa i̇nsan haklarısözleşmesi
yaygın i̇nsan hakları i̇hlalleri
avrupa i̇nsan haklarımahkemesi
i̇nsan hakları i̇hlallerinin önlenmesi
european convention on human rights
gross human rights violations
european court of human rights
title The Ability of European Convention on Human Rights in Preventing Gross Violations of Human Rights
title_full The Ability of European Convention on Human Rights in Preventing Gross Violations of Human Rights
title_fullStr The Ability of European Convention on Human Rights in Preventing Gross Violations of Human Rights
title_full_unstemmed The Ability of European Convention on Human Rights in Preventing Gross Violations of Human Rights
title_short The Ability of European Convention on Human Rights in Preventing Gross Violations of Human Rights
title_sort ability of european convention on human rights in preventing gross violations of human rights
topic avrupa i̇nsan haklarısözleşmesi
yaygın i̇nsan hakları i̇hlalleri
avrupa i̇nsan haklarımahkemesi
i̇nsan hakları i̇hlallerinin önlenmesi
european convention on human rights
gross human rights violations
european court of human rights
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