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Article: Judicial redress: can the European Court of Human Rights set an example?
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- UN Chronicle
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- December 22, 1998
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The 1950 European Convention on Human Rights is based upon the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is also the source of inspiration for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic. Social and Cultural Rights. The substantive law which the European Court applies is, therefore, basically universal human rights law. It is important to note that the provisions of existing human rights instruments are often couched in relatively general terms: the more precise contents of the obligations under a human rights instrument, subject to interpretation by a court, is given through the precedents set by this court. Since ...