Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- PART A Minorities-specific instruments, provisions and institutions
- PART B Non-minorities-specific instruments, provisions and institutions
- 7 Developments relating to minorities in the law on genocide
- 8 The United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 9 The United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- 10 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Children Belonging to Minority Groups
- 11 UNESCO's Convention Against Discrimination in Education
- 12 A patchwork of ‘successful’ and ‘missed’ synergies in the jurisprudence of the ECHR
- 13 The many faces of minority policy in the European Union
- 14 Developments under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights relevant to Minorities
- 15 Regional cooperation and minority issues in the Asia-Pacific region
- Index
- References
12 - A patchwork of ‘successful’ and ‘missed’ synergies in the jurisprudence of the ECHR
from PART B - Non-minorities-specific instruments, provisions and institutions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- PART A Minorities-specific instruments, provisions and institutions
- PART B Non-minorities-specific instruments, provisions and institutions
- 7 Developments relating to minorities in the law on genocide
- 8 The United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 9 The United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- 10 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Children Belonging to Minority Groups
- 11 UNESCO's Convention Against Discrimination in Education
- 12 A patchwork of ‘successful’ and ‘missed’ synergies in the jurisprudence of the ECHR
- 13 The many faces of minority policy in the European Union
- 14 Developments under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights relevant to Minorities
- 15 Regional cooperation and minority issues in the Asia-Pacific region
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
In line with the theme of a book concerning synergies in minority protection, this chapter sets out to analyse the strands of the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence which might enable the identification of synergies with developments under other instruments. In the first part of the chapter, the jurisprudential developments in relation to the synergy topics identified elsewhere will be evaluated, more specifically an increasing attention to the principle of substantive equality (in relation to minorities), to the participatory rights of members of minorities, as well as to the need for minority language rights and educational rights, while exhibiting extra attention to the particularly vulnerable position of the Roma (Gypsies).
The second part of the chapter will then go on to discuss case law relevant to the broad underlying theme of the above-mentioned synergies, namely special attention for the minority phenomenon and the specific (protection) needs of persons belonging to minorities, including in terms of general (not minority-specific) human rights.
In the pre-1995 case law of the supervisory organs of the ECHR, little or no attention was paid to the special needs of minorities. While the Court seems increasingly aware of the especially vulnerable position of minorities, and adopts important theoretical approaches with considerable potential for minority protection, the actual protection flowing from the case law is far from consistently positive.
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- Synergies in Minority ProtectionEuropean and International Law Perspectives, pp. 314 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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