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
attempting friendly settlements
referring cases to the European Court of Human Rights
screening individual applications
headquartersLocation Strasbourg
surface form: "Strasbourg, France"
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"

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European Commission of Human Rights hasAbbreviation European Commission of Human Rights
this entity surface form: "ECHR Commission"
European Court of Human Rights predecessor European Commission of Human Rights
Protocol No. 11 to the European Convention on Human Rights replaced European Commission of Human Rights

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