European Convention on Human Rights : Sixty Years and Beyond
Contents: Introduction/B. Krishnamurthy and Geetha Ganapathy Dore. I. European convention on Human rights reassessed ni the contemporary context. 1. Can European fundamental rights e contested/Pierre-Yves Monjal. 2. Towards a European law of representative democracy/Charles Reiplinger. 3. Security and anti-terrorism laws: what future for individual rights and liberties in the European Union?/Dominique Hiebel. 4. Rights of multiculturalism, Muslims and Europe/SAM Pasha. II. Dialogue between national constitutions and the European convention: 5. The principle of sustainable development in France France: The charter of environment in the French Constitution/Robert Etien. 6. European convention for the protection of Human Rights vis-a-vis fundamental rights under Indian constitutional law/Pawan Kumar. III. The convention seen through the prism of international relations: 7. Human rights dimensions of European Foreign and Development Cooperation policies: a case study of India-EU relations/B. Krishnamurthy and S. Jeeva. 8. Sovereignty versus humanitarian intervention/S. Mohammed Azaad. IV. Some literary, philosophical and pedagogical approaches to the convention: 9. The Jewish question and the lessons to learn/P. Marudanayagam. 10. Forced marriages in the European court of human rights and the European court of Justice/Geetha Ganapathy Dire. 11. Human rights as glimpsed from the lens of post-1967 French philosophy/Himanshu Damle. 12. Critical pedagogy in human rights education/Amruth G. Kumar. V. Epilogue: 13. European convention on human rights: lessons to learn/B. Krishnamurthy. Index.
The Europeans always claim that they have historically and traditionally developed a human rights culture and adherence to liberalism. On the human rights front, they believe that they are leading by their sterling example. Several European jurist scholars have attempted to contest, criticise and challenge fundamental rights and the system perpetuated to promote and protect them with the sole aim of strengthening and reinforcing them.
The present volume examines and evaluates the contribution of the European human rights regime, established 60 years ago under the auspices of Council of Europe. It wells on lessons, which Europe and other countries can learn from this experience-at once rich and rewarding in protecting and promoting human rights. The contributions from scholars, both Indian and European, cover different aspects of this experience and its outcome.
