European Commission of Human Rights
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The European Commission of Human Rights was a former body of the Council of Europe that initially handled and assessed human rights complaints before cases could proceed to the European Court of Human Rights.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former organ of the Council of Europe
→
human rights body → international organization body → |
| appliesLaw | European Convention on Human Rights → |
| appliesTo |
individual applications
→
inter-state applications → |
| basedOn | European Convention on Human Rights → |
| composition | independent members elected in respect of member states → |
| continent | Europe → |
| country | Council of Europe member states → |
| dissolutionCause | entry into force of Protocol No. 11 to the European Convention on Human Rights → |
| dissolved | 1998 → |
| endOfOperation | 1998 → |
| foundedBy | Council of Europe → |
| governs | admissibility of complaints under the European Convention on Human Rights → |
| hasAbbreviation |
Commission
→
European Commission of Human Rights →
surface form: "ECHR Commission"
|
| hasFunction |
filtering cases before they reached the European Court of Human Rights
→
protecting human rights in Europe → |
| hasObjective | ensure observance of the engagements undertaken by the High Contracting Parties in the European Convention on Human Rights → |
| hasRole |
assessing admissibility of complaints
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attempting friendly settlements → referring cases to the European Court of Human Rights → screening individual applications → |
| headquartersLocation |
Strasbourg
→
surface form: "Strasbourg, France"
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| inception | 1954 → |
| jurisdiction | alleged violations of the European Convention on Human Rights → |
| legalForm | treaty-based organ → |
| legalSystem | international human rights law → |
| location | Strasbourg → |
| memberOf |
Council of Europe treaty monitoring system
→
surface form: "Convention system of the Council of Europe"
|
| namedAfter | human rights → |
| operatedInLanguage |
English
→
French → |
| operationalStatus | defunct → |
| partOf | Council of Europe → |
| precededBy | no prior supranational European human rights complaints body → |
| regionServed | member states of the Council of Europe → |
| replacedBy |
European Court of Human Rights
→
single, full-time European Court of Human Rights system → |
| scope | regional → |
| significantEvent | abolition by Protocol No. 11 to the European Convention on Human Rights → |
| startOfOperation | 1954 → |
| supervises | implementation of certain aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights before referral to the Court → |
| workLocation |
Palais de l’Europe
→
surface form: "Palais des Droits de l’Homme, Strasbourg"
|
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "ECHR Commission"
Protocol No. 11 to the European Convention on Human Rights
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replaced
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European Commission of Human Rights
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