Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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(Lack of) Follow-up on Sejdic and Finci
In December last year the European Court of Human Rights ruled that some provisions of the Bosnian Constitution, as negotiated in the context of the Dayton Peace Agreement, violated the ECHR. Sejdic and Finci (shown on the photo) were prevented from running…
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Article on Principle of Effectiveness
The newest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 79, No. 2, 2010) contains an article by Daniel Rietiker, who works at the registry of the Court. It is entitled ‘The Principle of “Effectiveness” in the Recent Jurisprudence of the…
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Gender Justice Perspective on ECHR Case-Law
I would like to bring the Gender Justice Observatory to your attention. This website is, in its own words an “interactive database of important decisions from national, regional and international courts and tribunals and of strategies to work with courts and tribunals…
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PACE Rapporteur on Interlaken
The rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly, Mrs Marie-Louise Bemelmans Videc, has drafted a report which is the basis of the Assembly’s reaction to the Interlaken Conference. The Assembly’s resolution (no. 1726) was adopted…
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Article on Right to Life Jurisprudence
The newest issue (Vol 14, Issue 2, 2010) of the International Journal of Human Rights contains an article by Juliet Chevalier-Watts (University of Waikato, New Zealand), entitled ‘A rock and a hard place: has the European Court of Human Rights permitted discrepancies…
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New Ukrainian Judge Elected
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Mrs Ganna Yudkivska as judge with respect to Ukraine. She knows the Strasbourg system from the inside, as she has experience as a lawyer within the Court’s registry for five years and…
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New blog with case-law comments
The ever expanding human rights tree of bloggers has a new offshoot: a blog set up my a group of academics from Ghent University in Belgium, under the supervision of professor Eva Brems, with comments on Strasbourg case-law. This new blog features…
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Op-Ed on UK Human Rights Act and ECHR
This is an interesting op-ed by the chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, as published in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper. It adds to the ongoing debate on a possible repeal of the British Human Rights Act. The author, Alan Miller, takes a…
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ECHR at Sea
A few weeks ago the Grand Chamber of the Court ruled in a case concerning the jurisdiction of state parties on the High Seas: Medvedyev v. France. The case concerned the seizure of a Cambodian ship by the French authorities in order…
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Annual Report on the Execution of Judgments
Wednesday, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe released the Annual Report on its supervision of the execution of the Court’s judgments by the state parties in 2009. It was another year of increasingly intense and burdened supervision, but since…