European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms – Article 2, 3,4,5,6 and 7

On 18 January 2017, Kosovo Judicial Institute in cooperation with the State Department – Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OBDAT), American Department of Justice – International Office for Narcotic and Law Enforcement, within the Continuous Training Program organized training on: “European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms – Article 2,3,4,5,6 and 7”.  

This training aimed to deepen the knowledge of participants regarding the importance of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its effect to the legal system of national countries, particularly the Republic of Kosovo.  

Main focus of the training was the analyzation of legal provisions of Article 2, 3, 4,5,6,7 of the ECRH. More concretely the training focused on the elaboration of the nature, importance, effect and the scope of the right to life from the perspective of case law of the European Court on Human Rights, the torture, inhuman treatment, degradation or punishment, unlawful arrest, urgent procedures and rights of the detainee, ECHR case law and the right to a fair trial, as well as the ECHR case law in this field.     

Special attention was paid to the analyzation of the provisions of Article 7 of ECHR – upon the right that “no punishment without law”, more precisely – standards and ECHR case law from this point of view. 

Through discussion and study examples were elaborated the above mentioned rights of ECHR and important decisions of the ECHR jurisprudence as mandatory for judges and prosecutors of the Republic of Kosovo.

Beneficiaries of this training were judged from all court instance, prosecutors and lawyers from COA.