{"id":490,"date":"2020-09-04T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/?page_id=490"},"modified":"2020-10-03T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:44:24","slug":"4-the-promotion-and-protection-of-human-rights-is-a-priority-for-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/jewish-perspectives-on-the-crises-of-an-idea\/4-the-promotion-and-protection-of-human-rights-is-a-priority-for-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe promotion and protection of human rights is a priority for the European Union\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div id=\"attachment_440\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Stele_04-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Stele_04-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Stele_04-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Stele_04-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Stele_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Stele_04-1568x1045.jpg 1568w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Stele_04.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation Promotion and Protection of Human rights. Foto: Dietmar Walser<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>The European Human Rights Convention formulated in 1950 aims to safeguard the protection of individual human rights against state arbitrariness. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg watches over its implementation. One of the pivotal figures in the establishment of the European Court of Human Rights was Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht (1897\u20131960) from \u017b\u00f3\u0142kiew in at the time Austro-Hungarian Galicia. After his studies in Vienna under Hans Kelsen, the expert in constitutional law, legal philosopher, and co-creator of the 1920 Constitution of Austria, Lauterpacht moved to London. Here he developed his concept of human rights. Possibly, its humanitarian character is linked to his personal experience: Lauterpacht had lost almost his entire family in the Shoah. He defined the \u201cissue of human government\u201d as securing the \u201cnatural and inalienable rights of man.\u201d\u00a0 As adviser to the British prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials against the major criminals of war in1945-46, Lauterpacht developed the legal concept of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d as elements of offense against international law. <em>^ Hersch Lauterpacht, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, 1958, \u00a9 The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge, UK<\/em> <em>&lt; Tramway station \u201cDroits de l\u2019Homme\u201d in front of the\u00a0 European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg 2016 \u00a9, Rainer Unkel\/picturedesk.com<\/em> <em>&gt; Greek police guarding the Turkish-Greek border, February 29, 2020, \u00a9 Emrah Gurel\/APA\/picturedesk.com<\/em> In 2012, the European Court of Human Rights decided in a landmark judgement that in case of expulsion\/refoulement of refugees<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\u201cpursuant to Art.3 of the European Human Rights Convention, the repatriating state must prevent any ill-treatment in the country of destination<\/li>\r\n<li>acquiescence to refoulement to the torturing country of origin violates against Art.3 of the European Human Rights Convention<\/li>\r\n<li>collective expulsions also on the high seas and of boat people violate against Art.4 of the Fourth Protocol to the European Human Rights Convention<\/li>\r\n<li>boat people can avail themselves of remedies against their refoulement pursuant to Art. 13 of the European Human Rights Convention.\u201d<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Implementation of the European Union\u2019s commitment as formulated in the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon to accede to the Human Rights Convention has been blocked to this day\u2014repeated avowals to do so notwithstanding. Could it be that then also an independent monitoring body would have to scrutinize the actions and credibility of the member states?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Human Rights Convention formulated in 1950 aims to safeguard the protection of individual human rights against state arbitrariness. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg watches over its implementation. One of the pivotal figures in the establishment of the European Court of Human Rights was Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht (1897\u20131960) from \u017b\u00f3\u0142kiew in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":624,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[89,56,44,47,67,63,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490\/revisions\/752"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}