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The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) 
 
The European Convention on Human Rights is based on the 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the 
General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948.  
The Convention is concerned mainly with civil and political 
rights. 
The Convention was drafted under the auspices of the Consul of 
Europe, an international organization composed of 21 West European 
states which was formed in 1949 as the result of the first post-war 
attempt at unifying Europe. 
The Convention defined a set of fundamental individual rights. 
The rights included in the Convention include the right to life, the 
right to liberty and security of person, the right not to be subjected to 
inhuman or degrading treatment, not to be required to perform forced 
or compulsory labour, the right to a fair hearing, to respect for private 
life, to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to freedom of 
expression and assembly and free elections. These and other 
provisions of the ECHR are called Articles. 
The parties to the Convention are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, 
Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Ireland, 
Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, 
Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Liechtenstein 
is a member of the Council of Europe but not a party to the 
Convention.