International monitoring of the implementation of each country’s commitments is of fundamental importance in order to ensure effective respect for human rights in practice.
The institutions, mechanisms and bodies for the protection of human rights at a universal, regional and national level provide the appropriate framework for the monitoring of implementation and States’ effective compliance with their commitments. The said framework includes the relevant procedural rights of natural and legal persons, non-governmental organisations and other groups, such as the right of individual application and the right to petition.
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This year marks 30 years since the adoption of the Collective Complaints System of the European Social Charter (ESC) — an innovation of the Council of Europe that enabled social partners and accredited civil society organisations to collectively defend social rights at the European level. Over the years, the collective complaints procedure has resulted in a significant body … Read more
The presentation of the proceedings volume of the conference organized by the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in cooperation with the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR) “Interactions of the ECHR with the various branches of law” took place with great success on Tuesday, 4 November 2025, at … Read more
In the packed Great Hall of the University of Athens, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Volker Türk, delivered, on 18 November 2024, quite a powerful keynote speech on the current crisis of human rights, titled «The centrality of Human Rights in the current context».The High Commissioner particularly noted that this crisis … Read more