On this day in 1959 the European Court of Human Rights was established. It gets some (usually unjustifiably) bad press in the UK but it is an essential protection for over 820m people. Please share this THREAD on why it matters more than ever today
2/ Here is a basic intro to the European Court rightsinfo.org/brief-history-…
3/ What has the European Court of Human Rights ever done for us in the UK? Here are 11 things to start with! 👇🏼👏🏼rightsinfo.org/11-times-the-e…
4/ What is the European Convention on Human Rights that the Court enforces and why does it matter? Find out here 😊 rightsinfo.org/what-is-the-eu…
5/ Be careful not to confuse your European Convention on Human Rights with the European Union Charter!
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7/ The European Court of Human Rights (59 today 🎂🎉) gets a lot of criticism from Conservatives today but its origins are a real cross-party story. Churchill was behind its birth... rightsinfo.org/churchills-fig…
8/ David Maxwell-Fyfe, a future Tory Home Secretary was also key in building the human rights movement which created the Court (though he would probably have disapproved of its later prounoncments on gay Rights...👏🏻)
9/ Somewhat neatly it was a Tory government which helped bring the European Court of Human Rights into being but a Labour government which allowed people from the UK to directly petition the court in the 1960s
10/ He is a fab set of infographics explaining what the European Court of Human Rights is and what it focusses on rightsinfo.org/infographics/h… 
