The European Convention on Human Rights Author:Francis G. Jacobs The European Covention on Human Rights (ECHR) covers a wide range of human rights protection: from a prohibition on torture through to, for example, the medical treatment of transsexuals. Individuals are increasingly complaining of human rights violations to the Strasbourg institutions. This text offers a highly readable yet scholarly analysis o... more »f both the procedure and the substance of the Convention.« less