The issue of the application to the European Court of Human Rights in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

La cuestión de la solicitud al Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos en el contexto de la invasión rusa de Ucrania

• Nataliia Morska History Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6533-2802
• Mykhailo Prysiazhniuk Khmelnytskyi National University, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1333-7633
• Svitlana Luchkovska Khmelnytskyi National University, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9505-9480
• Andrii Misiats Khmelnytskyi National University, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1669-3556
• Liudmyla Mikhnevych Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4774-079X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4075.52

Keywords: human rights, human rights protection mechanism, armed conflict, international legal responsibility, principles of international law

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the practical aspects involved in filing applications to the European Court of Human Rights in the context of armed aggression against Ukraine. The achievement of the objective also involves the resolution of the following tasks: the analysis of the works of scientists who studied various aspects of human rights protection; international legal acts, as well as the legislation of Ukraine; the determination of the problems that exist at the present stage in the mechanism of human rights protection at the international level, and; the determination of the level of its effectiveness and the possibility of its application in Ukraine in the conditions of a military conflict. Specifically, the subject of the study is the prospect of implementation of the mechanism of appeal of citizens to the European Court for the Protection of Human Rights. The methodological basis of the research consisted in the dialectical combination of general scientific and special legal methods. It is concluded that, in view of the new socio-economic and political realities emerging in the modern world, it is necessary to update the whole system of human rights protection at the international level.

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