Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Roma Education Grand Chamber Judgment in Orsus
Today, the Grand Chamber of the Court delivered its judgment in the case of Oršuš and Others v. Croatia. It found that the separate education of many Roma children in several Croatian towns (in one school most Roma were put in separate…
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Article on FMG, the Netherlands and the ECHR
My Utrecht colleague from the institute of criminal law, Renée Kool, has just published ‘The Dutch approach to female genital mutilation in view of the ECHR. The time for change has come’ in the latest issue of the Utrecht Law Review (Vol.…
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Article on Continuing Violations
My colleague Yves Haeck, together with A. Van Pachtenbeke of Ghent University, have authored an article on continuing violations and the ECHR. It has been published in the most recent issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (see also two posts…
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Key Judgments of Last Week
Let me highlight here three key judgments and decisions the Court delivered last week. The first is the judgment of Kozak v. Poland on the rights of homosexuals. The Court held that a blanket exclusion of persons living in a homosexual relationship…
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Article on Interim Measures
The most recent issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 1, 2010) features an article on interim measures by Catharina Harby. It is entitled ‘The Changing Nature of Interim Measures before the European Court of Human Rights’. This is the…
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New Academic ECHR Articles
Three new ECHR-related articles have been published in the past few months, two in English and one in German: * L. Wildhaber, ‘Ein Überdenken des Zustands und der Zukunft des EGMR’, Europäische Grundrechte Zeitschrift vol. 36 (2009), pp. 541-553, on the current…
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Series of Conferences on ECHR
The French Council of State, together with the European Court of Human Rights, is organising a series of conferences in 2010 and 2011. The first one, on 19 April of this year in Paris, will be devoted to ‘the principle of subsidiarity…
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The Press on Interlaken
The European press is reporting on Interlaken, but I must say there is not a lot on it yet. Most news media seem to limit themselves to an overview of the reforms needed rather than an analysis of the conference’s outcomes. Maybe…
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Interlaken Declaration and Protocol 14
Double news from Switzerland. First, Protocol 14 will now finally enter into force on 1 June, after yesterday’s reposit – just before the start of the Interlaken Conference – by Russia of its instrument of ratification. Read the relieved press statements of…
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Interlaken Today and Tomorrow
Today and tomorrow the long-awaited Interlaken conference on the future of the European human rights protection mechanism will take place in the somewhat unlikely setting of the Casino Kusaal of the small Swiss city – symbolically emphasing that one shouldn’t gamble on…