Month: April 2011
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Joint NGO Statement for Izmir Conference
Today, the High Level Conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights started in the Turkish city of Izmir. This two-day conference is a meeting of state representatives of all the parties to the European Convention and follows up on a similar
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New Blog on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
As an exception to the principle that I only post about ECHR related measures, it is my pleasure to announce the birth of a new blog on one of the regional peers of the European Court: the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The blog has
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Annual Report Committee of Ministers on Execution of ECtHR Judgments
This week, the latest Annual Report ‘Supervision of the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights’ (covering the year 2010) of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers was published. According to the Committee’s own press release: The year also witnessed the
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Statistics on States with Systemic or Structural Problems
The secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has just issued an information document entitled ‘States with major structural/systemic problems before theEuropean Court of Human Rights: statistics’. It contains a host of data
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Azerbaijan and the ECHR
Article 19, the human rights NGO defending the freedom of expression across the globe, is ringing the alarm bells about the recent human rights situation in Azerbaijan, a member state of the Council of Europe and a party to the ECHR. Specifically, a recent press
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New Norwegian and Swiss Judges
Yesterday, 12 april, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Ccouncil of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. In respect of Norway, mr Erik Møse was elected and in respect of Switzerland Ms Helen Keller. Erik Møse is a Supreme Court
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Court’s Opinion for the Upcoming Izmir Conference
In the preparations for the upcoming Izmir high level conference in Turkey (under the Turkish chairmanship of the Council of Europe), the European Court of Human Rights has issued an ‘Opinion’ which reflect its input and views for that meeting. The Izmir conference is following
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New Case Law Fact Sheets
As reported here in October last year, the Court is increasingly making it’s case-law accessible by putting thematic electronic factsheets online which summarise the jurisprudence on a particular topic. In 2011 almost twenty new factsheets have been added to the Court’s website: * Child protection*
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Article on Strasbourg and Social Security
Emeritus professor Marc Bossuyt has written the article ‘L’extension de la compétence de la Cour de Strasbourg aux prestations sociales : sur l’interprétation de l’article 14 de la Convention combiné avec l’article 1er du Protocole n° 1 dans les affaires Gaygusuz, Koua Poirrez, Stec et
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Article on Unlawful Detention of Unauthorised Aliens
Ian Bryan (Lancaster University) and Peter Langford (Edge Hill University) have uploaded the abstract of the following article on SSRN: ‘The Unlawful Detention of Unauthorised Aliens Under the European System for the Protection of Human Rights’. It will be published in the upcoming issue of