A record 3,691 rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) are deemed to have been implemented, explains the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM) in its 2017 report, published on Thursday 5 April.
By way of comparison, 2,066 cases were closed in 2016 and the CM says these highly encouraging results are due to continued effort to boost dialogue and exchange of experience among countries, leading to a rise of more than 30% in the number of case closed in which structural...