Human Rights Under Threat: States’ Withdrawal from and Non-compliance with ECHR
(2017) JAMM07 20171Department 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
- 2017
- 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
@misc{8911077, 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}}, }