Social Security As A Human Right: The Protection Afforded By The European Convention On Human Rights (human Rights Files)

hrfile23_en.pdf......Page 0 Introduction......Page 7 European Court of Human Rights case-law on social security......Page 10 Article 6§1: Right to a fair trial......Page 11 Protection of substantive rights in the social-security field......Page 24 Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (Protection of property)......Page 25 Article 14 (Prohibition of discrimination)......Page 32 Article 2 (The right to life)......Page 39 Article 3 (Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment)......Page 42 Article 8 (Right to respect for private and family life)......Page 46 Reference to the European Social Charter in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights......Page 48 States’ obligation to comply with ECHR judgments......Page 50 Substance of the obligation to execute judgments......Page 51 Freedom of choice for the respondent state and supervision by the Committee of Ministers......Page 53 Execution procedure......Page 54 Access to an independent and impartial tribunal......Page 57 Length of proceedings......Page 58 Failure to execute a judgment or administrative decision......Page 59 Discrimination on the ground of sex......Page 60 Discrimination on the ground of nationality......Page 61 Discrimination in relation to other categories of people......Page 62 Protection of property (Article 1 of Protocol No. 1)......Page 63 Conclusion......Page 65 Appendix: list of the principal cases......Page 67 There is no mention in the European Convention on Human Rights of rights in the field of social security. Nevertheless, the Convention does protect certain of these rights which come into its area of application and this study sets out to explain how. It also examines recent developments in the relevant case-law of the European Court of Human Rights which, as well as affording procedural guarantees, has widened and strengthened the material protection of specific rights. In addition, examples are given of measures taken in the member states following judgments of the Court in cases concerning social security.--Publisher's description