The ICJ and other human rights groups have commented the second draft of the Brighton Declaration on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights.
Amnesty International, the AIRE Centre, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), Human Rights Watch, INTERIGHTS, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), JUSTICE and REDRESS commented on the continuing negotiations on the draft of the Brighton Declaration on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights. While welcoming many of the proposals in the Draft Declaration, designed to improve national implementation of the ECHR and to enhance the effectiveness of the Court, the NGOs express concern at two proposals on admissibility and codification of the principles of subsidiarity and margin of appreciation, that could seriously undermine the effectiveness of the European Court of Human Rights in protecting the Convention rights.
Europe-BrightonDeclaration-Submission-2012 (download the NGOs’ comments)