Publication at Faculty of Law |
2022
Abstract
The paper considers the extent to which the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its supervisory body, the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR), constitute an effective tool for the protection of human rights in times of such crises as the COVID-19 was (or has been). More specifically, the paper discusses whether states have resorted to derogation from their obligations under the ECHR during the COVID-19 pandemic (Chapter 2).
It also analyses the first decisions in COVID-19 cases rendered by the ECtHR (Chapter 3). This analysis is preceded by a more general chapter recalling the tools that the ECHR foresees for crisis situations and briefly describing how the ECtHR has dealt with such situations in the past (Chapter 1).