Year: 2022
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The Court in 2021: (worrying) facts and figures
Each year, the European Court of Human Rights issues annual reports that provide an overview of its activities, case-law and other facts and figures. The 2021 reports were issued last week, and are available here, here and here The overview of the Court’s case-law showcase a summary of key judgments that
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New Thematic Factsheet on Roma and Travellers
The Department for the Execution of Judgments of the ECHR has issued a new thematic factsheet on the execution of the Strasbourg Court judgments on ‘Roma and Travellers’. The Council of Europe uses the terms ‘Roma and Travellers’ to encompass the wide diversity of certain disadvantaged groups, including Roma,
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a new batch of ECHR-related publications of the last few months. More will follow in some of our subsequent posts. ● Başak Çalı and Esra Demir-Gürsel, ‘The Council of Europe’s Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights
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ECHR MOOC Starts Again on 10 February
Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR is starting again this week, on 10 February 2021. Registration is open now! To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into the ECHR’
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Online Seminar on the ECHR: Environmental Claims; Contemporary Issues
On Wednesday 9 February 2022,from 14h00 to 17h00 GMT, the Human Rights Law Centre of the University of Nottingham is organising an online seminar on the ECHR. This is the announcement by the organisers: ‘The Seminar is being held in honour of Emeritus Professor Alastair
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Public Lecture on Positive Obligations under the ECHR – Within and Beyond Boundaries
On 10 March, the University of Liverpool is hosting an online public lecture by Dr. Vladislava Stoyanova on Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights – Within and Beyond Boundaries. Here is a brief description of the event: ‘The development of positive obligations has been one of
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New Book: Putting Human Rights to Work
Philippa Collins, a lecturer at the University of Bristol, has published a book entitled Putting Human Rights to Work: Labour Law, the ECHR, and the Employment Relation (with Oxford University Press). Here is a short description of the book: “The very existence of an employment relationship
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EIN Colloquium on Implementation of Judgments in French
On 18 February, the European Implementation Network (EIN) in Strasbourg is organising an in-person colloquium on how NGOs and NHRI can effectively participate in the supervision process of implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The event will take place in French. More information
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The New Year and What is Coming up at the Court
First off, our very best wishes for the new year to all our readers for 2022! Before focusing on a number of matters ahead in the ECHR system, one decision emanating from the Court in the last days of 2021 also deservers attention. So, we start