CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 8 octobre 2008

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s83BE5C30 { font-family:Arial; font-size:8pt; vertical-align:super } .s944BDE53 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt } .s7ED160F0 { text-decoration:none } .s3DC36BA9 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline; color:#0069d6 } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   702 8.10.2008   Press release issued by the Registrar   Ten years of the “new” European Court of Human Rights     A Seminar will take place on Monday 13 October at the European Court of Human Rights on the occasion of the 10 th anniversary of the entry into force, on 1 November 1998, of Protocol No. 11 to the European Convention on Human Rights.   Protocol No. 11 brought into existence a “single” Court to which 800 millions of Europeans can directly apply.   The seminar will give the floor to the applicants’ representatives and the non-governmental organisations which contribute to the Court’s work and defend the rights and freedoms of the persons concerned before the Court. The aim of this event is to stage an open, face-to-face debate with the judges of the Court and members of the Registry, and also with the academics.   These discussions will enable us to take stock of the Court’s activities over the last ten years, without complacency, so that we can contemplate the challenges ahead in a constructive fashion. The presentations and discussions will focus on two main topics: the evolution of the right of individual petition and the evolution of European human rights case-law. ( Link to the programme of the Seminar )   Media are invited to attend the seminar from 2.30 p.m. onwards, subject to prior registration (before Friday 10 October at 12 noon) at the following address: [email protected] .   ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts Adrien Raif-Meyer (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 33 37) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Sania Ivedi (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 59 45)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.