On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the entry into force of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Central European Academy and the Ferenc Mádl Institute for Comparative Law 15-16 June 2023 An international academic conference entitled "70 Years of the European Convention on Human Rights: the Central European Narrative" was held in Budapest.
The ECHR entered into force on 3 September 1953 and since then Europe has undergone countless changes and faced endless challenges: environmental problems, regime change in post-socialist states, the rise of the internet, migration, the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russian-Ukrainian war, etc. Not surprisingly, in an age of ever-changing societies, the question is: how can a 70-year-old convention provide effective protection for human rights and still be a living instrument? The aim of the conference is to demonstrate the undisputed responsiveness and modernity of the ECHR, with an emphasis on the interpretative methods of the European Court of Human Rights and the Central European countries (i.e. the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Poland).
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