DH v Czech Republic Six Years Later: On the Power of an International Human Rights Court to Push through Systemic Change

SMEKAL, Hubert and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. DH v Czech Republic Six Years Later: On the Power of an International Human Rights Court to Push through Systemic Change. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2014, vol. 32, No 3, p. 288-321. ISSN 0169-3441.

Basic information

• Original name: DH v Czech Republic Six Years Later: On the Power of an International Human Rights Court to Push through Systemic Change
• Name in Czech: DH proti České republice po šesti letech: O moci mezinárodního soudu prosadit systémovou změnu
• Authors: SMEKAL, Hubert (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2014, 0169-3441.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50601 Political science
• Country of publisher: Netherlands
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 0.080
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/14:00076615
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• UT WoS: 000349942000004
• Keywords (in Czech): Česká republika; diskriminace; Evropský soud pro lidská práva; implementace rozsudku; právo na vzdělání; diskriminace; zvláštní školy
• Keywords in English: Czech Republic; discrimination; European Court of Human Rights; judgment implementation; right to education; Roma; special schools
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is often portrayed as the most developed regional human rights court, one which wields the power to influence practices in its Member States. In 2007, the Grand Chamber of the Court issued a famous ruling in the case DH v Czech Republic, which condemned discrimination of Roma children in education. The problem criticized in the DH case is of a systemic character; in order to comply with the ECtHR’s judgment, the Czech Republic would have to change its whole system of primary education. In our article, we discuss the ability of an international human rights body to push through a significant change in one of its Contracting Parties. We seek to draw more general propositions from the case study of DH v Czech Republic which can be tested by further studies – we try to identify factors and circumstances which support or hinder an international human rights court in its effort of pushing through a systemic change.

Abstract (in Czech)

Článek zkoumá faktory, které ovlivňují úspěšnost provedení rozsudku mezinárodního lidskoprávního soudu.

Links

• MUNI/A/0754/2012, interní kód MU: Name: Aktuální otázky evropské a mezinárodní politiky

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A