Existing legal standards and practices regarding violence against women in three regional human rights systems and activities being undertaken by civil society regarding the normative gap in international human rights law 2015, para. 40
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During the negotiations on the Convention, it was decided to establish both a European Court of Human Rights and a European Commission of Human Rights. The Commission, which was in operation from 1953 to 1999, largely performed two functions, namely, shielding the Court from a possible overload of individual complaints and serving as a regional institution directly accessible to individuals. It filtered complaints through admissibility proceedings, mediated disputes through friendly settlement and carried out fact-finding activities and drew up reports in respect of disputes that had been declared admissible but were not settled. Pursuant to Protocol No. 11, the European Court of Human Rights took over the functions of the Commission.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences