New QCEA brochure published
QCEA has launched a brochure raising awareness of the European Convention on Human Rights
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has published a new brochure designed to raise awareness of the important work of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Formed after the second world war, the ECHR brings forty-seven European countries together under one common set of binding rules, designed to protect the fundamental rights of all people.
In a statement, Marin Leng of QCEA said: ‘Together with its affiliated Court, the ECHR has played a vital role in furthering human rights in Europe for the past seventy years.
‘However, with a rise in the number of authoritarian and Eurosceptic governments across the continent, this human rights cooperation is facing unprecedented challenges… many European governments’ responses to recently-arrived refugees have involved significant abuses of the ECHR’s rules.’
