Month: November 2025
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Lize Glas and Corina Heri Join as ECHR Blog Editors
It is our great pleasure to expand the team of the ECHR Blog with two new editors: Lize Glas and Corina Heri. With the ever-evolving developments, both in practice, in case-law and academia, around the European Convention of Human Rights, it is wonderful that two great
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EIN-DRI 2025 Rule of Law Report Launch
Tomorrow, 25 November from 16:30-18:00 CET, the European Implementation Network (EIN) and Democracy Reporting International (DRI) will launch the new 2025 edition of the report ‘Justice Delayed, Justice Denied – The non-implementation of European Courts’ Judgments and the Rule of Law in the EU’. The report
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New Book on Intersectionality and the ECHR
Today, Nani Jansen Reventlow (human rights lawyer and founder of Systemic Justice), Eddie Bruce-Jones (Professor at the University of London), Lyn K.L. Tjon Soei Len (Associate Professor at the Ohio State University) and Adam Weiss (Chief Programmes and Impact Officer, ClientEarth) published a new edited book entitled ‘Intersectionality
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Call to Sign an Open Letter Regarding the Future of the European Convention on Human Rights
In recent months, several Council of Europe member states have portrayed the ECHR and the ECtHR as obstacles to addressing migration issues in Europe. Some states have openly criticised the Court, while others have even suggested withdrawing from the Convention. It is in response to
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Call for Abstracts: Revisiting the ECHR
The Human Rights Research Group of the Leuven University’s Centre for Public Law has just launched a call for abstracts for a conference entitled ‘Revisiting the ECHR: A Closer Look at Calls for Change’. The impetus for the conference was the by now (in)famous letter
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Online Event on the ECHR and Immigration Detention
On Wednesday 12 November 2025 from 16:00-17:00 (CET), the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights is organizing an online event entitled ‘Immigration detention: Establishing clear boundaries in international human rights law‘. The event will focus on a discussion of the European Court of Human Rights’
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New Book: Companion to the ECHR
My fellow blog editor Kushtrim Istrefi, together with Zane Ratniece, and Krešimir Kamber, have just yesterday, on the 75th anniversary of the ECHR, published The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights with Brill Publishers. The editors, in many years of meticulous work, have
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75 Years ECHR – Musings on a Birthday
Sometimes a photo can tell more than a thousand words: this black-and-white picture was taken exactly 75 years ago on 4 November 1950 in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Thirteen states (of which one even no longer exists, the Saar, now part of Germany) signed