14/10/2013 Parliamentary support
This seminar, aimed at members of national parliaments, was held in London on 14 October 2013, mainly to give parliamentarians a better knowledge of the European Convention on Human Rights mechanisms, and of the effective implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. A further objective was to consider the effectiveness of existing structures and mechanisms for the verification of Convention standards in national parliaments.
It was organised in co-operation with the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, at the invitation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom – which shared its experience in this area through its Joint Committee on Human Rights – and welcomed parliamentarians from Croatia, Estonia, the Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.