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What are our rights and liberties?

What is the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and how does it protect you and your family?

The Convention protects the right to:
 

  • life, freedom and security
  • respect for private and family life
  • freedom of expression
  • freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  • vote in and stand for election
  • a fair trial in civil and criminal matters
  • property and peaceful enjoyment of possessions.

The Convention prohibits:
 

  • the death penalty
  • torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • slavery and forced labour
  • arbitrary and unlawful detention
  • discrimination in the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms secured by the Convention
  • deportation of a state’s own nationals or denying them entry andf the collective deportation of foreigners.
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