SOME REFLECTIONS ON NORTH MACEDONIA’S “ROAD TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Abstract

The European Convention on Human Rights has been heralded as the most effective system
in the world for judicial protection of human rights. This research paper aims to analyze
North Macedonia’s constitutional framework for the juridical status (position) of
international treaties, confirming that there is a considerable scale of similarity,
homogeneity and convergence between the catalogue of fundamental freedoms and rights
of the individual and citizen in the Constitution of the RNM and in the European
Convention on Human Rights. Furthermore, North Macedonia’s journey to the European
Convention on Human Rights has been followed by particular steps that are considered
relevant for creating the formal assumptions which enabled or provided the Convention to
produce binding legal effects in the constitutional order of the RNM. Regarding the
European Court of Human Rights, when dealing with issues related to the legal protection
of human rights and freedoms included in the Convention and its additional protocols, it is
especially emphasized when it hears and decides on individual applications lodged by
citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia.