Year: 2023
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New Thematic Factsheet on Reproductive Rights
The Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has just issued a new thematic factsheet on how judgments of the Court have helped to protect and advance reproductive rights. Here is a brief description: ‘Under the…
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New ECHR Readings
In the last batch of readings of 2023 related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court, please find our selection below. We wish all our readers a good holiday season! * Helen Keller and Viktoriya Gurash, ‘Expanding NGOs’ standing: climate justice through…
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New Book on Compliance with ECtHR Judgments
Ramute Remezaite (European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, School of Law, Middlesex University) has just published a new book entitled Compliance with Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: States on a Spectrum of Democratisation. This is the abstract: ‘What does compliance with judgments of…
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New Book on the ECHR and the Western Balkans
Venera Kabashi (University of Zurich) has just published her dissertation entitled The ECHR and the Western Balkans: Bringing the Convention Home. The book is published by EIZ (Europa Institut an der Universität Zürich) Publishing and is available as an open access book. The dissertation analyses the…
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Call for Contributions: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2024
The European Yearbook on Human Rights has issued a call for contributions for its 2024 issue. The Yearbook publishes mostly about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe. It also contains sections on human rights in the European Union, the Organisation for…
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Lecture: ‘Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters’
On Thursday 30 November 2023, the President of the ECtHR Síofra O’Leary delivered the annual Mackenzie Stuart Lecture for Cambridge University’s Centre for European Legal Studies on ‘Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters‘. In the lecture President O’Leary discusses the relationship between…
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NNHRR Interview on Climate Change Litigation before the ECtHR
Last week, Anmol Gulecha (Tilburg University) and Jolein Holtz (Leiden University) gave an interview to the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) on the case of Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others, one of the three climate change cases currently pending before the…
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New Book on the Freedom of Religion or Belief in the ECHR
Caroline K. Roberts (Oxford Brookes University) has just published a new book entitled Freedom of Religion or Belief in the European Convention on Human Rights: A Reappraisal. This is the abstract: ”The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion in Article 9 of the…
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Launch of the Open Council of Europe Academic Networks Project
The Council of Europe has launched the Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN) project. The aim of the initiative is to strengthen co-operation between the Council of Europe and European universities and research institutions, and to promote the Council of Europe convention system through…
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Changes to the Rules of Court, Including on Interim Measures
In the past few months, the Court has been initiating some changes to its Rules of Court. Several of the changes relate to both degrees of transparency: on the public character of documents (Rule 33 § 1 on this has been amended) and a new, connected…