Positive Duties to Combat Violent Hate Crime After Šečić v. Croatia
Positive Duties to Combat Violent Hate Crime After Šečić v. Croatia

Summary/Abstract: The European Court of Human Rights (hereafter “the Court”) has in the recent years greatly expanded the ambit of the obligations binding State Parties under the European Convention on Human Rights (hereafter “the Convention”), by reading in the relatively sparse wording of the Convention an increasing number of positive duties.2 The expanding body of case law on policing and criminal justice, especially in the context of Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention represents a more substantial thrust in that direction. The recently adopted Šečić v. Croatia3 judgment (hereafter “Šečić”), a case filed by the European Roma Rights Centre, expands the Court’s jurisprudence in this area and brings a long overdue condemnation by the foremost regional human rights body of hate crime, a particularly heinous and widespread phenomenon in modern day Europe. [....]

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