The European Convention on Human Rights is exactly 75 years old. When it was agreed in November 1950, it was intended as a ...

Former Supreme Court president speaks of importance of ECHR - as question of UK membership enters mainstream politics.

Today is the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights. In spite of its longevity, the Convention ...

Speakers at the ceremonies described Kristallnacht as the moment when years of antisemitic incitement turned into coordinated, state-endorsed violence. The destruction of hundreds of synagogues and ...

If you want to know where a ‘living constitution’ leads, look at Europe.

Russia has begun the process of withdrawing from the European Convention on the Prevention of Torture. Source: Radio Liberty, cited by European Pravda Details: Russian ruler Vladimir Putin submitted a ...

Convention Chairman and former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing presented the latest draft of a new EU constitution at the European Council in Thessaloniki on 20 June 2003. The document, ...

Responding to the Latvian parliament’s vote to leave the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence ...

A group which is involved in investigating Moscow's war crimes in Ukraine has told Newsweek a plan by Russia to withdraw from a European treaty on torture was "profoundly disturbing." Vladimir Putin ...

Signed by 45 countries and the European Union as of 2019, the Council of Europe treaty is meant to standardise support for ...