MONITORING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ECHR IN NORTH MACEDONIA.

The Council of Europe is the first organization with a serious commitment to human rights protection in Europe. Its main legal instrument, the ECHR, defines a range of human rights which are to be implemented by EU member countries as well as a precondition for accession of aspiring EU countries. It is well accepted that aspiring countries have implemented these requirements in their legislatures. However, implementation of such laws is very lacking. The aim of this research is to find out the gaps in the implementation of human rights in the Republic of North Macedonia (RNM). This paper will examine the role of the Constitutional Court of RNM in the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and whether it applies the Convention. It aims to show how the case law of the ECtHR is integrated in its decisions? Despite the ECtHR which is a judicial mechanism, this research will evaluate the implementation by examining other legal and political monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]