Caros amigos,
Bem vindo de volta a essa série de vídeos sobre temas importantes do inglês jurídico.
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O tema que abordaremos hoje é Convenção Européia de Direitos Humanos, que foi elaborada pelo Conselho da Europa, Council of Europe in English. Como já sabemos, a União Européia foi criada como uma resposta aos horrores da segunda guerra mundial, no entanto é uma organização que foi evoluindo através das décadas até ser o que é hoje. O Conselho da Europa é uma organização paralela a União Européia, criada para ser uma organização protetora dos direitos humanos. Além de definir direitos, a organização é sede da Corte Européia de Direitos Humanos. Toda essa atividade Supranacional foi criada para que jamais se repetisse o que havia recentemente acontecido, a morte de milhões e milhões e o total descaso pela vida humana.
Através da perspectiva única de quem vivenciou o trauma de uma guerra, fora elaborada uma carta de direitos universais entre os países da União Européia. O nome dessa carta "charter" in English is the European Convention of Human Rights.
Now in English
The European Convention of Human Rights can be found on the link bellow
http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
And the Council of Europe in this next link.
http://www.coe.int/en/web/about-us/who-we-are
The section one of the charter has presented some very important fundamental rights. Let me list them for you!
Article 1 - Obligation to respect human rights
Article 2 - Right to life
Article 3 - Prohibition of torture
Article 4 - Prohibition of slavery and forced labour
Article 5 - Right to liberty and security
Article 6 - Right to a fair trial
Article 7 - No punishment without law
Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life
Article 9 - Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Article 10 - Freedom of expression
Article 11 - Freedom of assembly and association
Article 12 - Right to marry
Article 13 - Right to an effective remedy
Article 14 - Prohibition of discrimination
Article 15 - Derogation in time of emergency
Article 16 - Restriction on political activities of aliens
Article 17 - Prohibition of abuse of rights
Article 18 - Limitation on use of restrictions on rights
As you can see it has not been an easy task for the countries of Europe to maintain those and similar rights. Life tends to repeat itself if we do not do something about it. Teaching a little about Legal English now, I would like to point out a few of the terms.
An effective remedy is a legal action against any violation. The term remedy has already been used in our "Direito Constitucional" as a "Remédio Jurídico".
Derogation in time of emergency - To derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it. And enact means "promulgar". In the case of a war or an emergency the countries of Europe will be allowed to act in a manner that has been prohibited under the charter. With some limitations according to the article.
And another word that I would like to mention here is the term "alien" - is a person that is not protected by this legislation. An alien is an outsider, someone from a jurisdiction that one does not have relations with, or a citizen from another country. A hard concept to internalize. I normally use the example of Tom Hanks, he was an enemy alien in the movie the terminal. Now, for sure, you know what I mean.
Thank you so much for your time. See you soon!