Annotation:
On 26 June 2000, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted
Protocol No. 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights which
provides for a general prohibition of discrimination. The Protocol will be opened
for signature by Member States in Rome on 4 November 2000. Its entry into
force requires 10 ratifications. The original non-discrimination provision of the
European Convention (Article 14) is of a limited nature because it only prohibits
discrimination in the enjoyment of one of the other rights guaranteed by the
Convention. The new Protocol removes this limitation and guarantees that no-one
shall be discriminated against on any ground by any public authority.