Statesmen and SIGNATURES! NOT JUST PAPER AND PEN BUT THE FACTS!

The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR or ECHR) in 2004 has been ratified by 44 member countries of the Council of Europe, including the fifteen European Union members. With the ECHR, each State is obliged to respect the rights guaranteed under the Convention within the national legal system and in favor of any person, without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, color, language , religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status. Among the most important prohibitions against the States: Torture and inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment, slavery, servitude and forced labor, no punishment without law, the retroactivity of penal laws, discrimination in the enjoyment of rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Convention, the expulsion of a Member State of its citizens, the collective expulsion of aliens, imprisonment for debt, abuse of the law, the death penalty.

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Permalink Reply by Ciro Liuzzi on September 22, 2009 at 6:53am: Your hair stand on threats''Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi against the European Commission and Council at the same time denote irresponsibility 'when they assumed the blocking of the functioning of the Council, and impatience become absolute and pathological criticism when demands the silence of the members of the EU Commission.'' This was stated by the deputy of Italy of Values, Silvana Mura, according to which and '''impossible not emphasize how Berlusconi now just get on with dictators to Gaddafi, while arguing with democratic institutions such as those in Europe''; ▶ Reply to This