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D.H. v. Czech Republic Five Years After: On the Power of an International Human Rights Court to Push through a Systemic Change
| Title in English | D.H. V. Czech Republic Five Years After: On the Power of an International Human Rights Court to Push through a Systemic Change |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is often portrayed as the most developed regional human rights court, one which wields the power to influence practices in member states. In 2007, the Grand Chamber of the Court issued a famous ruling in the case D.H. v. Czech Republic which condemned discrimination of Roma children in education. The problem criticized in the D.H. case is of a systemic character; in order to comply with the ECtHR’s judgment the Czech Republic would have to change its whole system of primary education. In our paper we discuss the ability of an international human rights body to push through a significant change in a member state party to it. We seek to draw more general propositions from the case study of D.H. v. Czech Republic which can be tested by further studies – we try to identify factors and circumstances which support or hinder an international human rights court in its effort of pushing through a systemic change. |