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Theseus is a database containing analyses of case law relevant to children’s
rights from the European Court of Human Rights. It is available in English
and in French and there are 171 cases, covering the period 23 July 1968 to
16 June 2008. There are many ways to retrieve cases, among which by
applicant, name, country, period, date, key words and so forth. Shortly, cases will be
retrievable by article number from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Some useful key words and phrases are: family life, private life, education,
protection of children, deportation, child born out of wedlock, child
victim.
Theseus was set up by the programme "Building Europe for and with children"
under the supervision of the Research Division of the European Court of Human Rights
(initial research: Kyriaki Patsianta),
and thanks to financial support from the Government of Finland.
Access Theseus
Full
information on these cases may be obtained by consulting
Hudoc, the database of the European Court of Human Rights.
To learn more about how the European Court of Human Rights functions on a
daily basis, and the challenges it faces, see
"The conscious of Europe", a 15 minute video (15 minutes) available in
English, French or German.
(illustration: Eric Puybaret)
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