European Human Rights Law: The work of the European Court of Human Rights illustrated by an assortment of selected cases

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Chapter II, Human Rights Law on appropriate scales:
A, International perspective of Fundamental Rights:
1, An international mechanism:
Human Rights do concern all of mankind, therefore, they are best protected on an international scale. As the main focus of this work lays on the ECHR, the detailed abstract concept of the international Law is shortened. A significant number of International Organizations grew within the last decades, not only IGO s, but also the amount of NGO s fluctuated surprisingly after
World War II, the later break down of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The influence was enormously triggered by uncertainty, the experience of War, deprivation, depression, misery.
On the ground that both, International Organizations and States, are mentioned in this study, I want to offer a short insight regarding the legal status and differences of the two of them, hence a better understanding of their legal acts is guaranteed.
a, International Organizations and International Law:
International Law constitutes International Organizations as independent actors whilst States could be named as their founding-fathers at the same moment as being their members. Independence has to be understood in the sense of being constituted as a corporate person comparable with national commercial law. This leads to the fact that IGO s can allege violations, but also can be accused of violating any law, furthermore, they have a legal basis, which means that IGO s do have to comply with the rights, are addressees of obligations, but also of specific rights. To put this into one sentence Inter-State organizations are legally independent to their founders. Some of this independence is written into the treaties that establish them, and some of it arises by implication. Regarding independence, the Courts are constituted on this thought, meaning their power to judge as well as the argumentation leading to the judgments has to be seen

Sarah Maringele was born in Feldkirch (Vorarlberg/Austria) in 1986. As a student of the law department at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) she focused on Human Rights Law as well as Legal gender studies and diversity. During her time at the JKU, she completed an exchange program at the National Taiwan University and the Chinese Language Division Centre (Taipei). Several internships offered the possibility to optimize her experiences and qualifications in the field of International Law, specifically in the sector of Human Rights Law; e.g.: Internship at the solicitor s office Schwarzinger and partners (Wels), the Austrian Institute for Human Rights (Österreichisches Institut für Menschenrechte, Salzburg), the Austrian League for Human Rights (österreichische LIGA, Vienna).