What are our rights and liberties?
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 and the collective deportation of foreigners.
Educational tools
The European Convention on Human Rights
Virtual exhibition on the Convention
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