Geri Updated online course on Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and European Court of Human Rights

Updated online course on Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and European Court of Human Rights

An updated version of the most popular Council of Europe HELP (Human rights education for legal professionals) course, the course on Introduction to the European Convention on Human Right and the European Court of Human Rights was produced in co-operation with the action "Strengthening the effective legal remedies to human rights violations in Serbia”, implemented under the joint European Union and Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II”. The updated version of the course is now available on the HELP online platform.

For the first time, this course includes an entirely new Module on the Execution of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

The course was updated in close co-operation with the Council of Europe Department of the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. A senior lawyer from the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights also contributed to the course update.

Background and aim

The European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention), is an international treaty that protects human rights and fundamental freedoms across the 47 member States of the Council of Europe. It was the first instrument to give effect to certain of the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and make them binding.

The European Court of Human Rights (the Court) is the main organ of the Convention. Its task is to ensure that state parties respect the rights and guarantees set out in the Convention and its Additional protocols.

The Committee of Ministers, an organ of the Council of Europe, is tasked with supervising the execution of the final judgments of the Court in any case to which they are parties.

Thus, the system established by the Convention is the only one at international level that provides such a high level of protection for individuals. The primary responsibility for implementation of the Convention rests with the national authorities. To be able to implement it, the domestic actors need to have knowledge on the Convention and on the Court and its manner of working.

The HELP course on Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights is aimed precisely at providing this necessary knowledge.

Course structure

The course is composed of an introductory and 3 substantive modules. The overall length of the course is approximately 6 hours.

Introductory Module: welcome message; navigation instruction; course authors; course target group

Module 1: Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights

  • Structure of the ECHR
  • Interpreting the ECHR
  • the ECHR within the national legal order

Module 2: Introduction to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

  • Structure of the ECtHR
  • The life of an application before the ECtHR

Module 3: Execution of the Judgments of the ECtHR

  • Introduction to the module
  • Supervision of the implementation of the ECtHR judgments
  • Execution of the ECtHR judgments

The updated course is publicly available in English on the HELP online platform. It will soon be available in other languages. To access the course, you will need to open a HELP account if you have not yet done so, it takes about two minutes.

 Course on Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights

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Belgrade 31 March 2020
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