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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/906999c61e7dd1b2 https://verfassungsblog.de/belfast-good-friday-agreement-echr/ Hollowing Out Human Rights - The Implications for the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of Restricting ECHR Protections for Immigrants Murray, Colin eng 2026-03-26 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 ECHR ECtHR Good Friday Agreement migrant rights migration law Northern Ireland Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In less than two months, the Council of Europe is set to consider the adoption of a Political Declaration intended at “rebalancing” the European Convention on Human Rights in immigration contexts. These developments have implications for the connected rights commitments made under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of 1998. If the 1998 Agreement’s rights commitments start from, and extend beyond, the ECHR rights, this cannot be reconciled with efforts to water down those rights and shackle the interpretive role of the Strasbourg Court.