Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stock photo: Getty Images Russia has begun the process of withdrawing from the European Convention on the Prevention of Torture.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a law denouncing the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, according to a government website. Russia's parliament ...

The detail of the European Union's long-awaited accession to the European Convention on Human Rights is like a "three-dimensional puzzle" because of the several vital and interlocking elements which ...

LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Britain called on Wednesday for reform of the European Convention on Human Rights, amid growing domestic criticism that it allows a foreign-based court to meddle in ...

Türkiye’s systematic failure to comply with its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (“the Convention” or “the ECHR”), implement the binding judgments of the European Court of ...