A Convention to protect your rights and liberties
The European Convention of Human Rights is the first Council of Europe’s convention and it aims at protecting human rights. Its ratification is a prerequisite for joining the Council of Europe. It was adopted in 1950 and entered into force in 1953.
More than 200 conventions are a part of the Council of Europe legal framework. They are legally binding agreements with which a member state is obliged to comply once it has signed and ratified them.
Comment:
"A Convention to protect your rights and liberties".
Enforcement is necessary for the human rights under the Convention to be guaranteed.
"They are legally binding agreements with which a member state is obliged to comply once it has signed and ratified them".
Legally binding in which jurisdiction?
The member governments of the Council of Europe work towards peace and greater unity based on human rights and fundamental freedoms. With this Convention they decide to take the first steps to enforce many of the rights contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
According to Wikipedia: Unity is the state of being undivided or unbroken.
If certain newspapers and politicians are anything to go by, rather than unity there is disunity between the UK and the Council of Europe.
Given that it is 60 years since the UK took its first steps, surely it is way past time that the UK takes further steps?
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