O’zbekiston respublikasi ichki ishlar vazirligi akademiya m. A. Rustamov ingliz tili darslik

TEXT 
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. 
 

---

- 180 - 
12.16. Answer the questions.
1. Has your country signed the Convention? 
2. Is your country a signatory to the European Convention for 
the Protection of Human Rights?
3. Do you know anything about the European Convention on 
Human Rights (ECHR)? 
4. What document is it? When was it adopted? What is it based 
on? What are the aims of the ECHR? 
5. What is the Convention concerned nowadays? 
6. Nowadays the Convention is concerned mainly with civil and 
political rights, isn’t it? 
7. What rights are included in the Convention? 
8. What countries are the parties to the Convention? 
12.17.  Read and translate.
A set of individual rights; the right to an adequate standard of 
living; the well-being of citizens of all countries; the right to work; 
the right to a fair trial; the right to own property; the right to life; 
the right to liberty and security of person; the right not to be 
subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment; the right not to be 
required to perform forced or compulsory labour; the right to a fair 
hearing; the right to respect for private life; the right to freedom of 
thought; conscience and religion; the right to freedom of 
expressions and assembly and free elections; the right to marry 
and found a family; freedom of peaceable assembly; freedom of 
peaceable association; freedom from torture and slavery; freedom 
of conscience and religion
.