German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the Russian parliament, the Duma, to support reforms of the European Court of Human Rights.
The changes would fast track alleged cases of human rights violations and simply procedures for minor lawsuits. This is meant to help clear a backlog of around 80,000 cases. Merkel made the appeal at a meeting of Georgia-Russia flights to resume ...
Warsaw to Present Alternative Pipeline Plan to Moscow ... the 47-member Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Russia is the only member of the European human rights watch dog that still hasn't ratified Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights.
(Deutsche Welle)
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