INFORMATIVE CENTER FOR CIVIC SOCIETY

European Human Rights Convention Implementation

On 28 February this year the Informative Center for Civic Society promoted the book “The Influence of the European Convention for Human Rights Protection on the basis of the national law and practice”, as well as review on the successful realization of the project “Practical European Human Rights Convention Implementation”. Guided by the fact that the European Tribune for Human Rights is an institution which enables the individual to ask for justice if his human rights are violated in one of the European Council member countries, the Informative Center for Civic Society started its pioneer work in this field in 1997 and completed it in the year 2001, organizing several experts seminars for lawyers (more that 70 lawyers and other professional were trained), publishing the most relevant literature in this area and distributing it to all relevant and interested factors in the country, and finally realizing two successful interventions on national level through the systems of the European Tribune for Human Rights.

The publication “The Influence of the European Convention for Human Rights Protection on the basis of the national law and practice” tries to present the way in which the European Tribune for Human Rights, a Tribune that has been functioning for over fifty years, influences the national legislation and the legal practice of the Council of Europe member countries. It also contains the cases lodged in this court against the Republic of Macedonia in the period from 1998 (from the moment of the formal implementation of the European Human Rights Convention in our country) up to 2001. This retrospective clearly demonstrates how modern this subject is for the professionals from the country and the level of specialization we need in order to be able to successfully handle the jurisdiction of the European Tribune in Strasbourg.

The series of seminars “Practical European Human Rights Convention Implementation” as well as the publication “The Influence of the European Convention for Human Rights Protection on the basis of the national law and practice” have been financially supported by the Dutch organization Pax Christy. Special thanks for the unselfish presentation of her knowledge and experience in the seminars realizations were given to Mrs. Margarita Caca Nikolovska, a judge in the European Tribune for Human Rights.

 

E. Nuredinoska