Strasbourg, 13/04/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Council of Europe's seminal institution, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which was set up in 1959, rules on individual or state applications alleging violations of civil and political rights in the Council of Europe's 47 member countries and has played a decisive role in taking forward fundamental rights in Europe. It has become a victim of its own success, however, and is now facing a large backlog of cases, resulting to a great extent...