PACE on X: "1/ Happy birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, signed #OnThisDay 70 years ago! Today, the #ECHR binds 47 nations, obliging them to respect the basic rights of everyone they deal with. In this #thread, we look at the Assembly’s key role in its drafting. #ECHR70" / X

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1/ Happy birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, signed #OnThisDay 70 years ago! Today, the #ECHR binds 47 nations, obliging them to respect the basic rights of everyone they deal with. In this #thread, we look at the Assembly’s key role in its drafting. #ECHR70

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4:23 PM · Nov 4, 2020

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1/ Happy birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, signed #OnThisDay 70 years ago! Today, the #ECHR binds 47 nations, obliging them to respect the basic rights of everyone they deal with. In this #thread, we look at the Assembly’s key role in its drafting. #ECHR70
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4:23 PM · Nov 4, 2020
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PACE
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Nov 4, 2020
2/ When the @CoE met for the first time in the summer of 1949, there was a widespread expectation that one of its most urgent tasks was to draft a “charter of individual rights”, to cement democracy in Europe and avoid a repeat of the horrors of Nazi rule.
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PACE
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Nov 4, 2020
3/ This had been a key demand of the Hague Congress a year earlier, along with the creation of the @CoE itself. Its honorary President Winston Churchill told delegates: “in the centre of our movement stands a charter of human rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law.”
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PACE
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Nov 4, 2020
4/ A number of lawyers associated with the European Movement began drafting just such a charter, with the declared aim of creating “a system of collective security against tyranny”. They arrived in Strasbourg in August 1949 with a blueprint ready to propose.
European Movement and European Movement UK
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PACE
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Nov 4, 2020
6/ The two had first met at the Nuremberg Tribunal, where Maxwell-Fyfe had been Deputy Chief Prosecutor, and they had worked together at the Hague. Both thus had first-hand experience of the potential of international justice.
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PACE
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Nov 4, 2020
17/ On the very last day of the month-long 1949 session, the Assembly voted for Teitgen’s report by 64 votes to 1, with 21 abstentions. The Assembly had given its backing to the European Movement draft, with only relatively small changes.
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PACE
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Nov 4, 2020
18/ The recommendation adopted that day called on the twelve @CoE governments to “cause a draft Convention to be drawn up as early as possible, providing a collective guarantee”, and listing the 10 rights to be included (below). Read it here... pace.coe.int/en/files/14035…
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PACE
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Nov 4, 2020
19/ The bare bones of the Convention system as we know it emerged in these fascinating debates – the general scope of the rights to be guaranteed, a court to enforce them, the requirement to “exhaust all means of national redress”, application at national level, and more.
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Russian Monarchy
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Nov 5, 2020
To #PACE, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of #Europe ! Statement to President of ICC Chile Eboe-Osuji, about murder of writer Ganova Ludmila Author of "RussianMonarchy" about illegal power based on murder family of Romanovs NO LEGAL ASSESSMENT russianmonarchy.blogspot.com/2020/10/intern…