On 8 March 1949, the Luxembourg daily newspaper Tageblatt comments on the progress of the work taking place for the establishment of a European Court of Human Rights and publishes a list of the main rights which should be guaranteed.

First judgment given by the European Court of Human Rights concerning an inter-state case. The Court rules that there has been violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment).

First judgment given by the European Court of Human Rights. The Court rules that there has been no violation of Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights (no punishment without law).

Présentation du système de protection juridictionnel établi par la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme: le rôle de la Cour de Strasbourg, son siège, sa composition, son fonctionnement, l’étendue de la protection, les conditions de recevabilité des requêtes, les effets des arrêts et le contrôle de leur exécution. En particulier, la vidéo montre des exemples concrets de griefs soumis à la Cour ainsi que l’influence de sa jurisprudence dans les différents États ayant ratifié la Convention.

In December 1960, Polys Modinos, Human Rights Director at the Council of Europe and Registrar at the European Court of Human Rights, outlines in Le Monde diplomatique the legal and political scope of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed in Rome on 4 November 1950.