The European Convention on Human Rights: the Draft Copenhagen Declaration and the Threat to the European Court
[Róisín Pillay is Director of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Europe Programme.] The European Court of Human Rights is once more facing a political challenge to its role, in proposals for a new political declaration put forward by the Danish Presidency of the Council of Europe. That the Court’s extraordinary success in advancing human rights protection in Europe provokes the dissent...