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Vom Recht auf Menschenwürde

60 Jahre Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention
Edited by Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
[The Right to Human Dignity: Sixty Years of the European Convention on Human Rights.]
2013. XII, 272 pages.
Published in German.
  • cloth
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  • 978-3-16-152628-2
Summary
The European Convention on Human Rights took effect 60 years ago on 3 September 1953. This historic event marked an achievement in Europe that has so far not been realized on an international level: the creation of an agreement to protect human rights in the form not of a mere recommendation, but of a document directly and legally binding on its contracting member states. Even if there is still a lot to be done in order to uphold universal human dignity, the European Convention on Human Rights is an unprecedented success story: the fundamental rights guaranteed therein apply today from the Strait of Gibraltar to Kamchatka, from the north shore of Greenland to the Black Sea. In 30 individual papers, representatives of national and international organizations, as well as prominent figures from academia, politics and the media, examine the subject of human rights 60 years after the Convention entered into force.