"A first challenge is the continued increase of cases pending for more than 5 years. Whilst these cases accounted for some 20% of the total at the end of 2011, by the end 2015 they accounted for around 55%," the CoE’s Committee of Ministers (CM) said in the ninth annual report.
Turkey, Russia and Ukraine held the largest share of pending long-term cases with 88, 87 and 43 unresolved 5-year-or-longer cases respectively. A total of 685 cases pending for over 5 years have been registered in 2015, with 525 cases pending between 2 years to 5 years, and 345 at below 2 years.
"A second challenge is the management of sensitive and complex problems. The Committee of Ministers is increasingly confronted with difficulties related to ‘pockets of resistance’ linked to deeply-rooted prejudices of a social nature (for example toward Roma or certain minorities) or related to political considerations, national security or even to the situations in areas/regions of ‘frozen conflict’," the CM added.
It underscored dialogue with "key interlocutors" as one of the fundamental conditions to advance the execution of controversial or politically sensitive judgments.
