Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses A Guide for Victims and NGOs on Recourse Mechanisms

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  • Before you read
  • The guide
    1. Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Content of the Guide
    2. Intergovernmental Mechanisms
    3. Regional Mechanisms
    4. In Europe
      1. The European Court of Human Rights
      2. The European Social Charter
      3. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
      4. Additional Resources
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Additional Resources

On the European Court of Human Rights:

  • Information about the Court, relevant treaties, statistics, case-law, and the application procedure can be found on ECHR’s website:
    http://www.echr.coe.int/
  • For application procedures, see ECHR’s website, http://www.echr.coe.int/ follow “Applicants” and “Apply to the Court”. Among other official documents, you will find:
    • The mandatory Application form required by Rule 47
    • Notes for filling in the Application Form (2014)
    • How to apply to the Court - Institutional Proceedings Case-processing: the life of an application (flowchart):
      http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Case_processing_ENG.pdf
    • Admissibility Guide (2014), extensive, particularly useful for lawyers - Link to the Admissibility Checklist:
      http://appform.echr.coe.int/echrappchecklist
  • Information notes and thematic hand guides (under “Publications”)
    http://www.echr.coe.int/
  • Online tutorial for applicants explaining how to correctly fill in the application form:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/EuropeanCourt

On the european social charter:

  • CoE, Rules of the European Committee of Social Rights, adopted on 29th March 2004, most recently amended by the Committee on 6 December 2013:
    http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/escrrules/Rules_en.pdf
  • CoE, “How to register as an INGO entitled to lodge a collective complaint alleging violation of the European Social Charter?”:
    http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/organisationsentitled/instructions_EN.asp
  • CoE, “List of complaints and state of procedure”
    http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/Complaints/Complaints_en.asp
  1. In Europe
  2. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
  3. In Africa