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Andrew Cutting
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Working on communicating the 46-nation Council of Europe @coe.int + #ECHR = "The most effective #HumanRights protection mechanism in world history" (Baroness Shami Chakrabarti) See also https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-cutting-coe/ N.B. CoE ≠ EU
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · Nov 14
What has the European Convention on #HumanRights ever done for anyone?

Here are over 200 examples from across the continent:

www.coe.int/ECHR

There are many more.

#ECHR
Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - www.coe.int
European convention on human rights : How it changed the lives of many people across the continent.
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 18h
Just to underline:

❌ The European Court of Human Rights is NOT an EU body and CANNOT overrule or annul national laws

❌ There is NO right to migrate between countries in the European Convention on Human Rights

✅ Countries DO have leeway in interpreting and implementing #ECHR provisions
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 18h
🧵 What do Britons really think about leaving the #ECHR?

Fascinating new data from @yougov.co.uk👇

🔗 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 20h
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a groundbreaking recommendation to the organisation’s 46 member states on equal rights for intersex persons👇

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

@coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination
Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on equal rights for intersex persons
<p>Historic milestone calls for prohibition of non-consensual medical interventions and for full equality and non-discrimination against intersex persons across all areas of life</p>
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d
Martin Seely from Worsley makes a really important point in this letter to the Times👇

🔗 www.thetimes.com/comment/lett... (£)

Leaving the #ECHR would reduce human rights protections across the board for everyone in the UK.

Babies and bathwater spring to mind.
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d
Should the UK leave the European Convention on Human Rights?

Interesting comments from Dominic Grieve, former Attorney General for England and Wales👇

#ECHR
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 2d
In which former UK Lord Chancellor David Gauke (once again) destroys the often-repeated tale about #ChickenNuggets and the #ECHR👇

🔗 www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... via @thetimes.com

#BendyBananas #NotAgain
Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration
Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 2d
Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇

🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 2d
What has the European Convention on #HumanRights ever done for anyone?

Here are more than 200 examples👇

🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR

There are thousands more.

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - www.coe.int
European convention on human rights : How it changed the lives of many people across the continent.
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Alain Berset @alain-berset.coe.int · 8d
Great questions today @ Parliamentary Assembly Q&A. @coe.int has a unique role in safeguarding rights, strengthening democracy & tackling disinformation. No country can do it alone — but together, we can. We’ll carry this debate forward at the #EPC in Copenhagen.
Watch full Q&A: youtu.be/TJyrGfbZgPg
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 8d
Interesting: The Nottingham Post/Nottinghamshire Live are using the European Convention on #HumanRights to challenge a council leader's decision not to speak to their journalists👇

🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via BBC News

#FreeSpeech #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
Nottingham Post launches legal challenge over Reform press ban
Council leader Mick Barton has not spoken to journalists from the Nottingham Post since August.
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 8d
Democracy is facing a “perfect storm”, Council of Europe boss Alain Berset tells Newsweek👇

🔗 www.newsweek.com/council-of-e... via www.newsweek.com
Council of Europe leader warns "the perfect storm" is threatening democracy
The head of Europe's oldest intergovernmental organization warned Newsweek that democracy is in peril.
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 9d
The European Court of #HumanRights has started publishing a weekly summary of requests for “interim measures”.

From 15 to 19 September, the @echr.coe.int granted 0 out of 58 such requests (0%).

Figures by country👇

Full press release 👉 go.coe.int/FG4Jc

#ECHR #Rule39
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 14d
The European Court of #HumanRights has ruled against Italy for not doing enough to tackle #DomesticViolence.

Here are several more examples of how the #ECHR system has helped shift the needle on #ViolenceAgainstWomen👇

🔗 go.coe.int/e9Pqg

#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #EndVAW
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 14d
Donald Trump cited the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics (known as the SPACE I report) at the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday.

Here they are in full👇

🔗 wp.unil.ch/space/space-...

@coe.int
Annual reports - Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 15d
🎉France has launched a new stamp to celebrate 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights👇

🔗 go.coe.int/f8yzd

Maybe the UK should do the same?🤔

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 15d
Hugh Mercer KC has been sworn in as the UK's new judge at the European Court of Human Rights, following his election (yes, election) by the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly👇
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European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int · 16d
Swearing-in of the new judge elected in respect of the United Kingdom.

Judge Hugh Mercer was formally sworn in today in the Court's Main Hearing Room.

He is elected for a nine-year, non-renewable term.
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 15d
The European Court of Human Rights dealt with 332 UK applications in 2024, of which 328 were found inadmissible or struck out.

It issued 3 UK judgments last year, just 1 of which, brought by the publisher of the Daily Mail, found a human rights violation.

More info: go.coe.int/iGna8 (pdf)

#ECHR
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 15d
The European Court of Human Rights has today backed the UK (as it generally does) in a new case concerning voting rights for prisoners.

Full press release 👉 go.coe.int/ZTxdw

The previous UK #PrisonerVoting case was closed in 2018 after the government introduced some administrative changes.

#ECHR
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 16d
Interesting: The term ‘Chesterton’s Fence’ means “don’t take down a fence until you know why it was put up,” explains Anna Richards👇

🔗 consoc.org.uk/leaving-the-... via www.consoc.org.uk

Today’s Chesterton’s Fence is the European Convention on Human Rights.

#Privacy #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 19d
Here are some 200+ examples of how the #ECHR system has helped to improve ordinary people's lives, in the UK and across Europe👇

🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR

We are looking to develop this project and would appreciate any input/support from those who would like to help change the narrative on #HumanRights...
Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - www.coe.int
European convention on human rights : How it changed the lives of many people across the continent.
www.coe.int
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 20d
Interesting: Does police use of #FacialRecognition technology breach the #RightToPrivacy, #FreeSpeech and #FreedomOfExpression as set out in the European Convention on Human Rights?

🔗 www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic... via @thetimes.com

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
Call to stop police using ‘dangerous’ facial recognition tech
Expansion of ‘out of control’ and ‘Orwellian’ technology should be suspended until legislation is in place, campaigners say
www.thetimes.com
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 21d
Interesting: UK withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights would breach the #GoodFridayAgreement, says a new report from Queen’s University Belfast👇

🔗 www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-... via @irishlegal.com

#ECHR
UK withdrawal from ECHR would breach Good Friday Agreement
Claims that the UK could leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without breaching the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are "not credible", a new report has concluded. A new report by Pro...
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 22d
Interesting: Top UK artists including Mick Jagger, Kate Bush and Paul McCartney are using the European Convention on #HumanRights in moves to protect their work ahead of a UK-US tech deal👇

🔗 www.theguardian.com/technology/2... via @theguardian.com

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #WhenWillYouNeedYours
Top UK artists urge Starmer to protect their work on eve of Trump visit
Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Elton John among creatives arguing that Labour’s AI proposals could result in ‘an artist’s life work to be stolen’
www.theguardian.com
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 25d
Have you heard the one about a foreign criminal who couldn’t be deported, under the #ECHR, because his son didn’t like #ChickenNuggets abroad?

It’s not actually true, believe it or not.

🔗 observer.co.uk/news/nationa... via @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Misinformation and myth: the UK’s phoney war over human r...
The debate over the future of the European Convention on Human Rights will shape conference season and beyond
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 27d
What does “Europe” say about using criminal law to limit #FreeSpeech?

Check out this new guide from the 46-member @coe.int👇

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

@coemediafreedom.bsky.social #ECHR #FreedomOfExpression
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