The FINANCIAL — Speaking at the opening of a high-level Conference on the “Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights: our shared responsibility” in Brussels on March 26, PACE President Anne Brasseur reaffirmed the key role of the Parliamentary Assembly and its members to ensure that European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) standards are effectively protected and implemented domestically.
“We need to reaffirm the Convention’s central role as a constitutional instrument of European public order – ‘l’ordre public de l’Europe’ – in order to secure and reinforce democratic stability on our continent,” stressed Anne Brasseur. “The ‘success story’ of our Convention system is the responsibility of the executive, legislative and judicial organs, at both national and European levels,” emphasized PACE President, focusing specifically on the contribution of the Parliamentary Assembly to this process, especially, through the monitoring of the execution of the judgments of the Strasbourg Court as well as through the provision of targeted training to parliamentarians and parliamentary staff on the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The event, part of the on-goingBelgian chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, is the fourth in a series of high-level conferences on reform of the ECHR system, following on from those held in Interlaken (2010), Izmir (2011) and Brighton (2012).
It is expected to result in a political declaration tomorrow reaffirming support for the ECHR system, together with an action plan setting out measures to be taken within the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights and the 47 member states to improve the execution of the court’s judgments.
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