Human Rights
ECHR
- Right to respect for Convention rights & freedoms
- Right to life
- Right to freedom from torture & inhuman & degrading treatment or punishment
- Right to freedom from slavery
- Right to liberty & security of person
- Right to a fair trial
- Right to freedom from retrospective laws except in accordance with natural justice
- Right to respect for home & family life
- Right to thought, conscience & religion
- Right to freedom of expression
- Right to freedom of assembly
- Right to marry & to have a family
- Right to a domestic remedy for a breach of Convention rights & freedoms
- Right to freedom from discrimination in exercising Convention rights & freedoms
- Wartime exceptions
- Exceptions to Articles 10, 11 & 14 in respect of foreigners' political activities
- Restraint on exercise of rights & freedoms in abuse of others's rights & freedoms
- Strict interpretation of exceptions & restraints
- Sets up European Commission of Human Rights & Court
Much of the rest of the Convention deals with administrative concerns, further definition of the foregoing rights and freedoms, and optional additional rights and fredoms. For example:
First Protocol
- Right to property
- Right to education
- Right to free and fair elections
European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg