Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Measures Related to Corona and European Court of Human Rights Proceedings and Derogation from the ECHR
The Corona pandemic has since this week also directly started to have effects on international human rights mechanisms. The European Court of Human Rights has now announced it is taking a number of exceptional measures to respond. Just like in many other…
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New ECHR Readings
With traveling, conferences and even work in Europe and globally increasingly coming to a halt due to the current health crisis (my thoughts are with those affected), sometimes the best one can do is just to sit back and read. Please find…
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Great New Resource on Implementation of Judgments
The European Implementation Network (EIN) has added a great new resource to its website. The overview reflects how well or how badly all ECHR state parties are implementing the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Its most attractive and easily…
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Liber Amicorum Paul Lemmens
Already published a few months ago, but very much worth mentioning, a special Liber Amicorum to honour the ECtHR judge in respect of Belgium, Paul Lemmens. The book, published with Intersentia and edited by Koen Lemmens, Stephan Parmentier and Louise Reyntjes, is…
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Council of Europe Book on 70 Years ECHR
The Council of Europe has just published a book with the very short and plain title European Court of Human Rights to commemorate the 70 years of existence of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is a nice mix of history…
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New Judge Elected in Respect of France
Last week, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly elected a new judge to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Franc: Mattias Guyomar. He was elected by an absolute majority of votes cast in PACE (130 out of 239). Judge…
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Conference at the European Court of Human Rights on Women’s Rights
In two weeks, on 14 February 2020, the European Court of Human Rights, with the Fondation René Cassin – International Institute of Human Rights and with the support of the General Consulate of Japan in Strasbourg, will host a conference on ‘Women’s…
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ECHR MOOC Runs Again on 10 February 2020
On 10 February, our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) ‘Human Rights for Open Societies. An Introduction into the European Convention on Human Rights’ starts again on the Coursera platform. This online course is for everyone who is interested in the protection of…
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Call for Papers 70 Years ECHR Conference at Ghent University
On 18-20 November 2020, the colleagues over at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University will be organising a conference to celebrate that the ECHR will turn 70 earlier that month. The conference ‘The European Convention on Human Rights turns 70. Taking…
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Guest Post on Hungary’s Suspension of Pilot Judgment Implementation
It is my pleasure to present another guest post by professor Renata Uitz of Central European University in Budapest. Her comments go into the decision of the Hungarian government of a few days ago of suspending the effect of the pilot judgment…