European Court of Human Rights facts for kids
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) hears and decides particular type of complaints. These complaints relate to abuse of human rights. ECoHR’s other popular name is "Strasbourg Court". Member countries of the Council of Europe created ECoHR to arrange all such complaints, listen to the complaints, and to give decisions. European Convention on Human Rights tells about many human rights. ECoHR sees that people should enjoy all these human rights.
ECoHR' has a number of judges. The number of judges is seven normally but at the case of dealing a great issue, the number will be 21 and the judges are equally from member countries of the Council of Europe. At present, there are forty seven member countries of the Council of Europe. Each country may have one judge in the ECoHR. But, judges work independently for the ECoHR, and not for their country.
Judges
| Name | Country | Position | Elected | Term Ends |
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| Dean Spielmann |  Luxembourg |
President | 2004 | |
| Josep Casadevall |  Andorra |
Vice-President | 1998 | 31 October 2015 |
| Guido Raimondi |  Italy |
Vice-President | 2010 | 5 May 2019 |
| Ineta Ziemele |  Latvia |
Section President | 2005 | 31 October 2015 |
| Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre |  Monaco |
Section President | 2006 | 10 September 2015 |
| Mark Villiger |  Liechtenstein |
Section President | 2006 | 31 August 2015 |
| Boštjan Zupančič |  Slovenia |
Judge | 1998 | 31 October 2015 |
| Elisabeth Steiner |  Austria |
Judge | 2001 | 31 October 2015 |
| Alvina Gyulumyan |  Armenia |
Judge | 2003 | 31 October 2015 |
| Khanlar Hajiyev |  Azerbaijan |
Judge | 2004 | 31 October 2015 |
| Ján Šikuta |  Slovakia |
Judge | 2004 | 31 October 2013 |
| Dragoljub Popović |  Serbia |
Judge | 2005 | 3 April 2014 |
| Päivi Hirvelä |  Finland |
Judge | 2007 | 31 December 2015 |
| George Nicolaou |  Cyprus |
Judge | 2008 | 16 September 2015 |
| Luis López Guerra |  Spain |
Judge | 2008 | 31 January 2017 |
| András Sajó |  Hungary |
Judge | 2008 | 31 January 2017 |
| Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska |  Macedonia |
Judge | 2008 | 31 January 2017 |
| Ledi Bianku |  Albania |
Judge | 2008 | 31 January 2017 |
| Nona Tsotsoria |  Georgia |
Judge | 2008 | 31 January 2017 |
| Ann Power-Forde |  Ireland |
Judge | 2008 | 2 March 2017 |
| Zdravka Kalaydjieva |  Bulgaria |
Judge | 2008 | 30 April 2017 |
| Ayşe Işıl Karakaş |  Turkey |
Judge | 2008 | 30 April 2017 |
| Nebojša Vučinić |  Montenegro |
Judge | 2008 | 26 August 2017 |
| Kristina Pardalos |  San Marino |
Judge | 2009 | 20 September 2018 |
| Ganna Yudkivska |  Ukraine |
Judge | 2010 | 14 June 2019 |
| Vincent De Gaetano |  Malta |
Judge | 2010 | 19 September 2019 |
| Angelika Nussberger |  Germany |
Judge | 2011 | 31 December 2019 |
| Julia Laffranque |  Estonia |
Judge | 2011 | 3 January 2020 |
| Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque |  Portugal |
Judge | 2011 | 1 April 2020 |
| Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos |  Greece |
Judge | 2011 | 18 January 2020 |
| Erik Møse |  Norway |
Judge | 2011 | 9 October 2020 |
| Helen Keller |  Switzerland |
Judge | 2011 | 4 October 2020 |
| André Potocki |  France |
Judge | 2011 | 21 June 2020 |
| Paul Lemens |  Belgium |
Judge | 2012 | 13 September 2021 |
| Helena Jäderblom |  Sweden |
Judge | 2012 | 31 October 2021 |
| Paul Mahony |  United Kingdom |
Judge | 2012 | 1 November 2021 |
| Aleš Pejchal |  Czech Republic |
Judge | 2012 | 1 November 2021 |
| Johannis Silvis |  Netherlands |
Judge | 2012 | 1 November 2021 |
| Krzysztof Wojtyczek |  Poland |
Judge | 2012 | 1 November 2021 |
| Valeriu Gritco |  Moldova |
Judge | 2012 | 1 November 2020 |
| Faris Vehabović |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Judge | 2012 | 3 December 2020 |
| Ksenija Turković |  Croatia |
Judge | 2012 | 31 October 2021 |
| Dmitry Dedov |  Russia |
Judge | 2013 | 31 October 2022 |
| Egidijus Kūris |  Lithuania |
Judge | 2013 | 31 October 2022 |
| Robert R Spano |  Iceland |
Judge | 2013 | 30 October 2022 |
| Iulia Motoc |  Romania |
Judge | 2013 | 18 December 2022 |
| Jon Fridrik Kjølbro |  Denmark |
Judge | 2014 | 2 April 2023 |
Images for kids
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European Court of Human Rights building
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A segment of the Berlin Wall in front of the European Court of Human Rights
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Courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights
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Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
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Compliance with all compliance-relevant judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as of 10 March 2017. At that date, the oldest non-complied judgement was from 1996.
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The backlog of pending cases has gone down from a peak of 151,600 in 2011, in part to streamlined rejection of applications at the admissibility stage.
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See also
In Spanish: Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos para niños
