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Andrew Cutting
@andrewcutting.coe.int
Working on communicating the 46-nation Council of Europe

@coe.int + #ECHR = "The most effective #HumanRights protection mechanism in world history" (Baroness Shami Chakrabarti)

See also https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-cutting-coe/

N.B. CoE ≠ EU
So do the British people actually want to leave the European Convention on Human Rights?

🔗 theconversation.com/do-british-p... via @theconversation.com

Spoiler alert: No

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.

Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇

🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR

There are thousands more.

#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Interesting: Why withdrawing from the #ECHR would undermine Conservative environmentalism👇

🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/23/c... via @conservativehome.bsky.social

#HumanRights #Environment
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
There goes that European Court of Human Rights again.

Using the #HumanRights convention to hold states to account for not properly investigating drug rape claims.

Full press release 👉 go.coe.int/SyILv

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #HumanRights #WhenWillYouNeedYours
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Spanish authorities failed to properly investigate allegations that two women had been drugged and raped, rules the European Court of Human Rights.

Full press release 👉 go.coe.int/SyILv

#ECHR #Article3 #Article8 #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #EndVAW
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
In the last 10 years, around 1 in 1,000 applications to the European Court of Human Rights has led to a violation judgment concerning immigration.

Check out our new factsheet on #Migration and the #ECHR👇

🔗 go.coe.int/FSABl

@coe.int @echr.coe.int
October 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🧵 What do Britons really think about leaving the #ECHR?

Fascinating new data from @yougov.co.uk👇

🔗 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
October 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Martin Seely from Worsley makes a really important point in this letter to the Times👇

🔗 www.thetimes.com/comment/lett... (£)

Leaving the #ECHR would reduce human rights protections across the board for everyone in the UK.

Babies and bathwater spring to mind.
October 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Should the UK leave the European Convention on Human Rights?

Interesting comments from Dominic Grieve, former Attorney General for England and Wales👇

#ECHR
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇

🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The European Court of #HumanRights has started publishing a weekly summary of requests for “interim measures”.

From 15 to 19 September, the @echr.coe.int granted 0 out of 58 such requests (0%).

Figures by country👇

Full press release 👉 go.coe.int/FG4Jc

#ECHR #Rule39
September 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The European Court of #HumanRights has ruled against Italy for not doing enough to tackle #DomesticViolence.

Here are several more examples of how the #ECHR system has helped shift the needle on #ViolenceAgainstWomen👇

🔗 go.coe.int/e9Pqg

#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #EndVAW
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🎉France has launched a new stamp to celebrate 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights👇

🔗 go.coe.int/f8yzd

Maybe the UK should do the same?🤔

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75
September 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The European Court of Human Rights dealt with 332 UK applications in 2024, of which 328 were found inadmissible or struck out.

It issued 3 UK judgments last year, just 1 of which, brought by the publisher of the Daily Mail, found a human rights violation.

More info: go.coe.int/iGna8 (pdf)

#ECHR
September 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The European Court of Human Rights has today backed the UK (as it generally does) in a new case concerning voting rights for prisoners.

Full press release 👉 go.coe.int/ZTxdw

The previous UK #PrisonerVoting case was closed in 2018 after the government introduced some administrative changes.

#ECHR
September 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Interesting: The term ‘Chesterton’s Fence’ means “don’t take down a fence until you know why it was put up,” explains Anna Richards👇

🔗 consoc.org.uk/leaving-the-... via www.consoc.org.uk

Today’s Chesterton’s Fence is the European Convention on Human Rights.

#Privacy #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What does “Europe” say about using criminal law to limit #FreeSpeech?

Check out this new guide from the 46-member @coe.int👇

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

@coemediafreedom.bsky.social #ECHR #FreedomOfExpression
September 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
“The #ECHR is not an obstacle to effective immigration control. It does not ban deportation; it bans deportation to danger. It doesn’t bar removal to a safe, human-rights-compliant third country” - former UK Lord Chancellor Charlie Falconer👇

🔗 www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... via @thetimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org has alerted the Council of Europe’s #MediaFreedom platform to a ban on Reform UK county councillors engaging with Nottinghamshire Live👇

🔗 fom.coe.int/en/alerte/de...

@coe.int @coemediafreedom.bsky.social #FreeSpeech
September 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Well, there's a thing.

New research from Oxford University says that misleading media coverage is shaping UK public debate on immigration, human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR👇

🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09... via @bonavero.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Interesting: Is the European Convention on #HumanRights more Swedish than Abba?

🔗 www.thetimes.com/world/europe... via @thetimes.com

Sweden has a 100% record when it comes to implementing #ECHR rulings👇
September 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The latest polling from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social showed a sharp INCREASE in support for the UK staying in the European Convention on Human Rights.

Read the research👇

🔗 www.moreincommon.org.uk/latest-insig...

#ECHR #SilentMajority
August 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In the news recently, the Council of Europe’s anti-trafficking convention helps to prevent human trafficking, protect victims and prosecute traffickers.

It covers all 46 @coe.int countries, plus Belarus and Israel.

Find out more👇

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/anti-...

#NoTrafficking
August 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Interesting: Despite the relentlessly negative media coverage, most people in the UK want to stay in the European Convention on Human Rights👇

🔗 yougov.co.uk/topics/inter... via @yougov.co.uk

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
June 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM