ABSTRACT
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has unquestionably developed to become a major player in the defence of religious minority rights, both within its incredibly vast geographic scope, and beyond, through its influence as 'the most effective human rights regime in the world', 'the most successful international human rights adjudication and enforcement regime in the world today', and'a sort of world court of human rights'. Though proportionately its case law dealing with minority religion is not especially extensive3, the Court has communicated rather powerful statements regarding the protection of minority religious rights. Christos Tsevas' contribution 'Human rights and religions:'living together' or dying apart' addresses the issue of how freedom of religion balances between universality of human rights and the religious particularities of states in recent ECtHR decisions.
