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Human Rights Under Threat: States’ Withdrawal from and Non-compliance with ECHR

Dopidze, Davit LU (2017) JAMM07 20171
Department of Law
Faculty of Law
Abstract
International human rights law has been progressively expanding and filling the areas that have traditionally been subject to the political decision-making process of sovereign states. Some states, however, have resisted to this, for instance, by refusing to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. For the same reason, they are also considering the withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights.

This research sheds light on the complexity of implications of the withdrawal and non-compliance. It analyses them with respect to the UK and Russia. Furthermore, it determines the impact of these measures on the protection of human rights on the global, domestic and regional levels.

The findings show that, on... (More)
International human rights law has been progressively expanding and filling the areas that have traditionally been subject to the political decision-making process of sovereign states. Some states, however, have resisted to this, for instance, by refusing to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. For the same reason, they are also considering the withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights.

This research sheds light on the complexity of implications of the withdrawal and non-compliance. It analyses them with respect to the UK and Russia. Furthermore, it determines the impact of these measures on the protection of human rights on the global, domestic and regional levels.

The findings show that, on the one hand, the withdrawal and non-compliance can have significantly different impacts on the human rights protection. On the other hand, substantially disparate implications can stem from the same measures taken by various states. (Less)
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author
Dopidze, Davit LU
supervisor
organization
course
JAMM07 20171
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Human Rights, Sovereignty, ECHR, ECtHR, Withdrawal, Non-compliance, United Kingdom, Russian Federation, Threats
language
English
id
8911077
date added to LUP
2017-06-07 17:26:52
date last changed
2017-06-07 17:26:52
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  abstract     = {{International human rights law has been progressively expanding and filling the areas that have traditionally been subject to the political decision-making process of sovereign states. Some states, however, have resisted to this, for instance, by refusing to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. For the same reason, they are also considering the withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights.

This research sheds light on the complexity of implications of the withdrawal and non-compliance. It analyses them with respect to the UK and Russia. Furthermore, it determines the impact of these measures on the protection of human rights on the global, domestic and regional levels.

The findings show that, on the one hand, the withdrawal and non-compliance can have significantly different impacts on the human rights protection. On the other hand, substantially disparate implications can stem from the same measures taken by various states.}},
  author       = {{Dopidze, Davit}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Human Rights Under Threat: States’ Withdrawal from and Non-compliance with ECHR}},
  year         = {{2017}},
}