Month: June 2026
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Council of Europe publishes minutes of Chişinău meeting
The Council of Europe has published the minutes of the sitting of the Committee of Ministers held in Chişinău, Republic of Moldova on 15 May 2026. This includes statements concerning the adoption of the Chişinău Declaration on migration. The 110-page minutes document provides an indication…
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Whose Vulnerability Counts? Competing Vulnerabilities and the Silent Departure from Derungs in B.M. v. Switzerland
I. Introduction In B.M. v. Switzerland (no. 50227/21, 12 May 2026), the European Court of Human Rights found a violation of Article 5 § 4 ECHR because the judicial review of the applicant’s continued preventive detention took place without an oral hearing. The applicant, a…
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Execution of Judgments Factsheets
The Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has published two new factsheets this month on its website. The first relates to Pilot Judgments, The second to Excessive Length of Proceedings. Apart from specific information introducing each topic, the…
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From Supervision to Interpretation: Could Cyprus v. Turkey Become the First Practical Use of Article 46 § 3 ECHR?
At its June 2026 Human Rights meeting, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe took a potentially historic step in the supervision of the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The Committee decided to prepare the possible use…
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Call for papers: International cooperation under the European Convention on Human Rights
The University of Liverpool is organising a two-day conference on “International cooperation under the European Convention on Human Rights”, to be held in Liverpool on 15-16 October 2026. The conference will facilitate a dialogue of scholars and practicing experts from the European Court of Human…
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New Podcast on Intersectionality and the ECHR
In November last year, we posted about a new edited book entitled ‘‘Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments‘. The book was published by Nani Jansen Reventlow (human rights lawyer and founder of Systemic Justice), Eddie Bruce-Jones (Professor at the University of…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
A new double issue of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (Vol. 7, Issue 1-2). This issue is a special issue edited by Andreas Follesdal, Jan Petrov, and Alain Zysset. The special issue focuses on the role of the ECHR in times of…
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New Book on Pensions as Property and the ECHR
Kevin Hartmann-Cortés (UCLouvain, Belgium) has just published a new book entitled ‘Pensions as Property: Insights from the European Convention on Human Rights‘. This is the abstract: ‘This book explores the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) when defining and protecting pension entitlements…
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New Case-Law Guide on Business and Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has just published its new case-law guide on business and human rights. This case-law guide compiles and analyses a lot of cases on different Convention Articles relevant in the business context. Here is a very brief description: ‘There is…