Month: January 2021
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PACE Elects New Judges of the Strasbourg Court
On 26 January 2021, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has elected two new judges of the European Court of Human Rights. Andreas Zünd was elected in respect of Switzerland and Ioannis Ktistakis in respect of Greece. Both judges obtained an absolute majority
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CDDH Report on ECHR in European and International Legal Order
Recently, the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) has published a new report. It was written at the request of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and adopted already in 2019, but only published at the end of last year. The report
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Guest Post: The Recent Rise in ECtHR Inter-State Cases in Perspective
By Elif Erken & Claire Loven, PhD researchers at Utrecht University Introduction For those with an interest in inter-State cases before the European Court of Human Rights (Court) January 2021 was an important month. In January 2021, the Court issued its admissibility decision in the
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new selection of academic publications from the last few months, related to the European Court of Human Rights, the Convention and other directly related topics:· The latest volume of the European Yearbook on Human Rights (Vol. 2020) is out, with
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Training on the Freedom of the Media for Civil Servants
The ‘Matra Rule of Law Training Programme’ offers a training on the Freedom of the Media for civil servants working on the media law or policy from the Western Balkans countries, Georgia, Moldova, Turkey and Ukraine. The training is fully financed by the Dutch Government
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Training on ECtHR Judgments Implementation in Russia
As part of a series of trainings, the European Implementation Network (EIN) and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) have issued a call for applications (in Russian here) by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), human rights defenders and human rights lawyers to participate in a training on advocating for
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Online ERA Course on ECHR: Human Rights in Times of Emergency
The European Law Academy (ERA) is organising one of its famous courses for professionals online on the theme of ‘Human Rights in Times of Emergency‘ on 28 and 29 January. The course will go into ‘current challenges posed by COVID-19 to individual human rights with
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Guest Post on Guðmundur Andri Ástráðsson v. Iceland: Breach of Domestic Law on Judicial Appointments Violated the Right to a Fair Trial
By Ketevan Kukava, head of Rule of Law and Human Rights Direction, IDFI Facts of the Case The case of Guðmundur Andri Ástráðsson v. Iceland, decided on 1 December 2020, provided the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) with an opportunity to
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A New Year, A New Look for the ECHR Blog
As the new year of 2021 is starting, it is time for renewal. For this blog, this renewal already started last September with the extension of the editorial team. Now, in the thirteenth year of existence of this blog, we have decided to give it a