Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Ukraine, the Suspension of Russia in the CoE, and Infringement Proceedings in Turkish Kavala Case
As the very worrisome and sad events of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are rapidly and brutally unfolding this week, causing both human suffering and human rights violations, the very fabric of peace and the international rule of law in Europe seem to be deeply…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Last post of 2021: Covid, Architects and Spaghetti Monsters
Dear readers, as another Covid-19 year slowly grinds to a halt, this is the last post of 2020, as this blog will take a Winter break. For the European Court of Human Rights this was another challenging year, with what we could…
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New Book on the ECtHR and European Public Order
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Liverpool has just published a new book with Cambridge University Press, entitled Can the European Court of Human Rights Shape European Public Order? It is available as print book and in electronic version. This is the abstract: ‘In…
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Online Training on Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence and the ECHR
The European Implementation Network is organising a free online training on 16 December on the topic ‘Combatting violence against women and domestic violence by supporting the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights’. It is aimed at practitioners and will…
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Just Satisfaction Awarded by the Court : Statistics
The Execution Department, which supports the Committee of Ministers in monitoring the execution of the Court’s judgments by the states, has recently expanded the factsheet webpages per country. They now also include the amounts of just satisfaction that the Court has awarded to victims of…