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Learning the Key Principles and the Functioning of the European System of the Protection of Human Rights

This presentation introduces the project Explore and Act for Human Rights and explains the importance of the European Court of Human Rights and this project. It starts by briefly introducing the overall and specific goals of the project which is to further human rights through education by teaching the Court’s principles and case-law in secondary schools. It then discusses the importance of the Court as the most effective international mechanism of human rights protection, introducing some statistics on its work, describing the range of topics it has examined in its case-law and examining the impact of its judgments on changes of laws, policy and practice in member states. It then examine to what extent is the case-law known in general population and specifically in education sector, arguing that further efforts should be undertaken to introduce the Court to students and teachers. This leads to a discussion of the activities of the project: research, preparation of lesson plans and materials in respect of 10 landmark cases, development of the depository of learning materials, annual conferences. The paper concludes by evaluating the project.

Court of Human Rights; impact of judgements; education for human rights

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