RESEARCH DIVISION DIVISION DE LA RECHERCHE Cultural rights in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights Publishers or organisations wishing to translate and/or reproduce all or part of this report in print or online are asked to contact
[email protected] for details of our terms of use. © Council of Europe / European Court of Human Rights, January 2011 (updated 17 January 2017) The report was prepared by the Research Division in English and is not binding on the Court. It can be downloaded from the following website: www.echr.coe.int (Case-Law / Case-Law Analysis / Research Reports). SUMMARY This report provides a selection of the Court’s main jurisprudence in the context of cultural rights. Although neither the Convention nor the Court explicitly recognise the “right to culture” or the right to take part in cultural life, unlike other international treaties, the Court’s case-law provides interesting examples of how some rights falling under the notion of “cultural rights” in a broad sense can be protected under core civil rights, such as the right to respect for private and family life (Article 8 of the Convention), the right to freedom of expression (Article 10) and the right to education (Article 2 of Protocol No. 1). TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 4 I. Right to Artistic Expression ............................................................................................. 5 1. Visual arts ......................................................................................................................................