European Court of Human Rights facts for kids

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) hears and decides particular type of complaints. These complaints relate to abuse of human rights. ECoHR’s other popular name is "Strasbourg Court". Member countries of the Council of Europe created ECoHR to arrange all such complaints, listen to the complaints, and to give decisions. European Convention on Human Rights tells about many human rights. ECoHR sees that people should enjoy all these human rights.

ECoHR' has a number of judges. The number of judges is seven normally but at the case of dealing a great issue, the number will be 21 and the judges are equally from member countries of the Council of Europe. At present, there are forty seven member countries of the Council of Europe. Each country may have one judge in the ECoHR. But, judges work independently for the ECoHR, and not for their country.

Judges

Name	Country	Position	Elected	Term Ends
Dean Spielmann	Luxembourg	President	2004
Josep Casadevall	Andorra	Vice-President	1998	31 October 2015
Guido Raimondi	Italy	Vice-President	2010	5 May 2019
Ineta Ziemele	Latvia	Section President	2005	31 October 2015
Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre	Monaco	Section President	2006	10 September 2015
Mark Villiger	Liechtenstein	Section President	2006	31 August 2015
Boštjan Zupančič	Slovenia	Judge	1998	31 October 2015
Elisabeth Steiner	Austria	Judge	2001	31 October 2015
Alvina Gyulumyan	Armenia	Judge	2003	31 October 2015
Khanlar Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	Judge	2004	31 October 2015
Ján Šikuta	Slovakia	Judge	2004	31 October 2013
Dragoljub Popović	Serbia	Judge	2005	3 April 2014
Päivi Hirvelä	Finland	Judge	2007	31 December 2015
George Nicolaou	Cyprus	Judge	2008	16 September 2015
Luis López Guerra	Spain	Judge	2008	31 January 2017
András Sajó	Hungary	Judge	2008	31 January 2017
Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska	Macedonia	Judge	2008	31 January 2017
Ledi Bianku	Albania	Judge	2008	31 January 2017
Nona Tsotsoria	Georgia	Judge	2008	31 January 2017
Ann Power-Forde	Ireland	Judge	2008	2 March 2017
Zdravka Kalaydjieva	Bulgaria	Judge	2008	30 April 2017
Ayşe Işıl Karakaş	Turkey	Judge	2008	30 April 2017
Nebojša Vučinić	Montenegro	Judge	2008	26 August 2017
Kristina Pardalos	San Marino	Judge	2009	20 September 2018
Ganna Yudkivska	Ukraine	Judge	2010	14 June 2019
Vincent De Gaetano	Malta	Judge	2010	19 September 2019
Angelika Nussberger	Germany	Judge	2011	31 December 2019
Julia Laffranque	Estonia	Judge	2011	3 January 2020
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque	Portugal	Judge	2011	1 April 2020
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos	Greece	Judge	2011	18 January 2020
Erik Møse	Norway	Judge	2011	9 October 2020
Helen Keller	Switzerland	Judge	2011	4 October 2020
André Potocki	France	Judge	2011	21 June 2020
Paul Lemens	Belgium	Judge	2012	13 September 2021
Helena Jäderblom	Sweden	Judge	2012	31 October 2021
Paul Mahony	United Kingdom	Judge	2012	1 November 2021
Aleš Pejchal	Czech Republic	Judge	2012	1 November 2021
Johannis Silvis	Netherlands	Judge	2012	1 November 2021
Krzysztof Wojtyczek	Poland	Judge	2012	1 November 2021
Valeriu Gritco	Moldova	Judge	2012	1 November 2020
Faris Vehabović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Judge	2012	3 December 2020
Ksenija Turković	Croatia	Judge	2012	31 October 2021
Dmitry Dedov	Russia	Judge	2013	31 October 2022
Egidijus Kūris	Lithuania	Judge	2013	31 October 2022
Robert R Spano	Iceland	Judge	2013	30 October 2022
Iulia Motoc	Romania	Judge	2013	18 December 2022
Jon Fridrik Kjølbro	Denmark	Judge	2014	2 April 2023

Images for kids

European Court of Human Rights building
A segment of the Berlin Wall in front of the European Court of Human Rights
Courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights (detail)
Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
Compliance with all compliance-relevant judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as of 10 March 2017. At that date, the oldest non-complied judgement was from 1996.
The backlog of pending cases has gone down from a peak of 151,600 in 2011, in part to streamlined rejection of applications at the admissibility stage.