Preliminary comments of Amnesty International on proposal to add a collective complaints and/or class action procedure to the European Convention on Human Rights control mechanisms

Preliminary comments of Amnesty International on proposal to add a collective complaints and/or class action procedure to the European Convention on Human Rights control mechanisms

This document contains the comments delivered by Amnesty international in Bled, Slovenia on 22 September 2009. The organization attaches great importance to reflections on ways to address challenges posed by un-remedied systemic or endemic problems, which have resulted in repetitive violations of the human rights of individuals in Council of Europe member states and repetitive applications to the European Court of Human Rights.