In view of the discussion by the Committee of Ministers, the ICJ and nine other NGOs wrote an open letter to all member states of the Council of Europe on draft Protocol 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Amnesty International, the AIRE Centre, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), Human Rights Watch, Interights, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), JUSTICE, Open Society Justice Initiative and REDRESS wrote an open letter to all member states of the Council of Europe on Draft Protocol 15. In the letter, the organizations draw the states’ attention to a specific shortcoming in article 1 of the Protocol in relation to the insertion of a reference to the doctrine of the margin of appreciation in the Preamble to the Convention.
OpenLetter-Joint-CouncilofEurope-Protocol15-2013 (download the open letter)