Year: 2009
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Satire and the Freedom of Expression
This is a picture of a carnival parade in which US president Barack Obama is shown with wings carrying the text of his campaign phrase “Yes we can”, to which the figure Europa is clinging with the text “We too”. Benevolent humour with a clear…
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Bringing Rights Home
At a round table discussion held in Bled in Slovenia on 21-22 September, the Court’s registrar gave his views on how the Court could deal with repetitive cases pending further reforms. Although these are his personal views, they do give a good insight in the…
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Hunger Strike and Interim Measures
The EU Observer reports today about a hunger strike in Romania, related to the massacres which took place in 1989 during the chaotic days of the fall of the Ceaucescu regime. Teodor Maries, the head of an organisation of family of victims of those days,…
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HRW Report on Russia and ECHR
The NGO Human Rights Watch has published a report on Russia’s implementation of Strasbourg judgments relating to Chechnya: “Who Will Tell Me What Happened to My Son?”. The report investigates a number of cases in which the European Court found violations of the Convention and…
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New Issue EJML on ECHR and Migration Law
The newest issue of the European Journal of Migration and Law (Vol. 11-3, 2009) is almost entirely dedicated to the European Convention on Human Rights. These are the contents: * The European Court of Human Rights and Immigration: Limits and Possibilities, pp. 199-204(6), Authors: Battjes,…
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New Book on Terrorism and ECHR
Intersentia has just published a new book on terrorism. The book includes a strong ECHR component: Anna Oehmichen, ‘Terrorism and Anti-Terror Legislation: The Terrorised Legislator? A Comparison of Counter-Terrorism Legislation and Its Implications on Human Rights in the Legal Systems of the United Kingdom, Spain,…
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Grand Chamber Judgment on Disappearances
Its been three weeks now, but the Grand Chamber judgment of the Court in Varnava a.o. v. Turkey is important enough to highlight here. The case concerns a number of disappearances which occurred in 1974 during the the armed conflict on Cyprus. The disappeared persons…
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RSS Feeds by the Court
The Court added a few features to its website last week which makes it even easier to keep track of its work. Apart from existing feeds on news, webcasts of the Court’s hearings, bulletins of the Court’s library, and case information notes, there are now…
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Better Working Conditions for ECHR Judges
The Strasbourg docket may be filled to the brim and the work of the judges very demanding, but their status and conditions of service has now at least become more clearly regulated. On 23 September the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/Res(2009)5 ‘on the status…
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Harvard Human Rights Journal on ECHR
I had not yet referred to it earlier, but the last issue of 2008 of the Harvard Human Rights Journal contains an article by Jennifer Reiss on Russian non-ratification of Article 14: ‘Protocol No. 14 ECHR and Russian Non-Ratification: The Current State of Affairs’. Although…