Accountability through supervision mechanisms – the example of the European human rights system

Veronika Fikfak

Chapter 26 in Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations, 2025, pp 464-478 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, how accountability is achieved in the Council of Europe (COE) in the context of compliance with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is investigated. The European human rights system is unique amongst the different regional human rights systems in how it approaches the issue of compliance monitoring. Instead of treating the issue as a legal one, the question is externalised to a political body, aided by an expert secretariat. In this regard, the system of accountability in the European human rights system is a blend of politics and law and a negotiation between several bodies: the Court, which rendered the judgment; the Committee of Ministers, a political body which supervises compliance; the Department of Executions, a Secretariat intended to provide administrative expertise, and ultimately states. The dynamics between these different actors make this an especially appropriate case study of how accountability can be reached at the international level.

Keywords: Human rights system; Supervision mechanism; Committee of ministers; Monitoring; Compliance; Supervision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306923
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