III. Agree or disagree with the statements:

1 The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an integral part of the United Nations Charter.

2. The jurisdiction of the Court covers all domestic questions of the states.

3. The Court consists of 15 judges.

4. The judges are elected by the General Assembly.

5. The judges are elected on the bases of their nationality.

6. The judges serve for a term of nine years.

7. No two judges can be nationals of the same state.

8. The judges may not be re-elected.

9. The Court normally sits in plenary.

10. The seat of the Court is in the Geneva.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. What is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations?

2. What does the jurisdiction of the Court cover?

3. How many judges does the court consist of?

4. How are the judges chosen?

5. How long do the judges serve?

V. Match the first part of the sentence (1-5) with the second one (a-e):

1	The Court normally sits in plenary,	a	of the same State.
2	No two Judges can be nationals	b	all Members of the United Nations.
3	Both the General Assembly and the Security Council can ask the Court	c	the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
4	The Court is open to	d	for an advisory opinion on any legal question.
5	The International Court of Justice is	e	but it may also form smaller units called chambers.

VI. Make up a plan of the text: the european court of human rights

I. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

Protection - захист, to set up - засновувати, essential - істотний, to inspire - надихати, conscience – совість, fair - чесний, available – корисний.

II. Read and translate the text.

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948. This Declaration sought to define a set of individual rights which were considered to be fundamental to the will – being of citizens of all countries. The Declaration included the right to an adequate standard of living.

The Convention is concerned mainly with civil and political rights. The rights included in the convention include the right to life, the right to liberty and security of person the right not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment, not to be required to perform forced or compulsory labour, the right to a fair hearing to respect for private life, to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to freedom of expression and assembly and free elections. These and the other provisions of the ECHR are called Articles.

The parties to the Convention are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Russia.

The European Court of Human Rights was established by the European Convention for the Protection of Human rights and Fundamental Freedoms and was set up in Strasbourg in 1959. The Convention which was drawn up by the Council of Europe in 1950, was inspired by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and protects many essential rights such as the right to life, freedom from torture and slavery, freedom of thought, conscience and religion the right to marry and found a family, freedom of peaceable assembly and association, and the right to a fair trial.

The European Court of Human Rights is composed of twenty-one judges, one for each member state. Occasionally all judges sit on a case, but usually cases are heard by a panel of no more than seven. The hearings are oral, and the court has funds available to provide legal aid for individual complainants to be legally represented. Only states which are parties to the Convention have the rights to bring a case before the Court.