In Europe fundamental rights have come to be regulated by an increasing number of legal instruments such as the European Convention on Human Rights ECHR the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and international treaties It is not always easy to understand what requirements are set in these different instruments and how they interrelate This textbook therefore provides an integrated and systematic overview of the requirements imposed by international and European fundamental rights law It discusses a range of both civil political fundamental rights eg freedom of expression and social economic rights eg right to health for each of which it is discussed how it is protected by the ECHR by other Council of Europe instruments by EU law and by international treaty instruments Each chapter is concluded with an integration section which explains the relations between the different systems of fundamental rights protection and discuss differences overlap and bottlenecks
