Right to respect for private and family life

Article 8
Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. This right embodies the right to a name, the right to change one’s civil status and to acquire a new identity, and protection against telephone tapping, collection of private information by a State’s security services and publications infringing privacy. This right also enables members of a national minority to have a traditional lifestyle.
IN PRACTICE, the right to respect for private and family life applies, for example, to…

USEFUL LINKS

FACTSHEETS
- Right to one’s own image
- Data protection
- Children’s rights
- Child protection
- Homosexuality
- Gender identity
- Roma and travellers
- New technologies
- Work-related rights
- Terrorism
- Violence against women
- Freedom of religion
- Protection of journalistic sources
- Reproductive rights
- Parental rights
- Environment
- Health
- Mental health

