... wish to protect Western Europe against communism, which had spread into the states in Central and Eastern Europe. The Convention provided both a symbolic statement of the principles for which Western European states stood and "a remedy that might protect those states from communist subversion2". The Convention transformed the abstract human rights ideals into a concrete legal framework. Although the concerns over 'sovereignty' and the reluctance on the concept of a state's accountability in the early days, more than 303 state's signed and ratified the Convention. Nowadays, the Convention has evolved into a European bill of rights, with the European Court of Human Rights having a role akin to that of a constitutional court in a federal legal system. The Convention in short The term 'human rights', in the usual sense, covers everything which in the language of the Convention is a 'freedom'. Under Article 1, these Contracting Parties shall secure ...

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