Associate Professor of Human Rights Law and Public International Law at Utrecht University.
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Open-Minded or Open-Ended? The Chișinău Declaration on the ECHR and Migration
On 15 May, the 46 Council of Europe states adopted the Chișinău Declaration on the ECHR and migration. The Declaration, which follows several extraordinary meetings of the Steering Committee on Human Rights, does not echo the express criticism of the ECtHR’s case law contained in the Letter…
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Symposium on the Challenges of Chișinău
Since the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights, the system has been recognized for its continuous and progressive evolution. Through slow but incremental change, over the past decades we have witnessed the adoption of new protocols that grant individuals access…
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Article 3 ECHR and Chișinău: What Are the Stakes?
By Natasa Mavronicola, University of Birmingham Article 3 ECHR is under pressure. At a recent informal ministerial conference in Strasbourg on human rights day, 10 December 2025, Ministers from 27 Member States of the Council of Europe prepared a joint statement that is…
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Call to Sign an Open Letter Regarding the Future of the European Convention on Human Rights
In recent months, several Council of Europe member states have portrayed the ECHR and the ECtHR as obstacles to addressing migration issues in Europe. Some states have openly criticised the Court, while others have even suggested withdrawing from the Convention. It is…
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Conference on ECHR and Venice Commission: Guarding Human Rights and the Rule of Law, and Facilitating Constitutional Resilience
On 6 and 7 November 2025, Katja Ziegler, Ed Bates, Amal Sethi (CELI – Centre for European Law and Internationalisation) and Julinda Beqiraj (Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law) are organising an event on the ‘ECHR and Venice Commission: Guarding Human Rights and the Rule of Law, and…
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Workshop: Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and other International Human Rights Systems
On 15 and 16 December 2025, the Academy for European Human Rights Protection of the University of Cologne is organising a workshop for early-career researchers. The workshop is entitled ‘Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and other International Human…
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Workshop on Positive Obligations and Discrimination in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
The University of Lund and Utrecht University are organising a workshop entitled Positive Obligations and Discrimination in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights. It will take place in Lund on 4 and 5 June 2026. Aim and…
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Inadmissibility Decision in S.S. and Others v. Italy: A Missed Opportunity in Migration Control Externalization
By Dr. Lena Riemer, LLM (Yale), Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University In November 2017, a CNN investigation sent shock waves through global media: African migrants were sold in “slave markets” in Libya, sparking global outrage and renewed attention to…
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Not Vulnerable Enough, not Assimilable Enough: Promising Victimhood in Latvia and Lithuania’s ECtHR Pushback Arguments
By Maria Gevorgyan, Central European University In recent years, pushbacks, the practice of forcibly returning asylum seekers without access to legal procedures, have become a central issue in European border politics. On 12 February 2025, the European Court of Human Rights…
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ECHR Developments on Gender-Based Violence Part II: The Autonomous and Proactive Risk Assessment in N.D. v. Switzerland
By Dr. Jasmine Sommardal, Associate Editor of the ECHR Blog Over the recent months, the ECtHR has delivered significant judgments concerning gender-based violence. In this post, I argue that N.D. v. Switzerland is notable for its application of the requirement of…