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…
What is the right to privacy and how is it protected under the European Convention on Human Rights?
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What is the right to family life and how is it protected under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)? See some examples.
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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