New and Updated Case-Law Factsheets

The case-law factsheets of the Court have been updated and extended. In addition, translations in French, Russian, German, Polish, and Turkish are available on the Court’s website. Please find a list below of those factsheets which have been updated in the past half year (arranged per theme, so some pop up under two different headings):

CHILDREN AND PARENTS

protection of minors (March 2013)
children’s rights (February 2013)
parental rights (March 2013)
reproductive rights (January 2013)

CRIMINAL FIELD

terrorism (December 2012)
violence against women (October 2012)

DATA

Protection of personal data (January 2013)
New technologies (March 2013)

DISCRIMINATION

Gender identity issues (October 2012)
Homosexuality: criminal aspects (October 2012)
Roma and travellers (January 2013)
Sexual orientation issues (February 2013)

EUROPEAN UNION

Case-law concerning the EU (January 2013)
“Dublin” cases (October 2012)

EXPULSION

Expulsions and extraditions (February 2013)
Terrorism (December 2012)

HEALTH

Detention and mental health (January 2013)
Environment-related cases in the Court’s case-law (December 2012)
Health (January 2013)
Mental health (February 2013)
Prisoners’ health rights (March 2013)
Social welfare (January 2013)

LIFE

Death penalty abolition (December 2012)
Right to life (February 2013)

OPINIONS AND INFORMATION

Freedom of religion (February 2013)
Protection of journalistic sources (November 2012)
Trade union rights (November 2012)

PRISON

Detention and mental health (January 2013)
Detention conditions and treatment of prisoners (January 2013)
Prisoners’ health rights (March 2013)

WORK AND BUSINESS

Forced labour and trafficking (November 2012)
Taxation and the ECHR (January 2013)
Trade union rights (November 2012)
Work-related rights (February 2013)

OTHER FACTSHEETS

extra-territorial jurisdiction of ECHR Member States (October 2012) (Note: This should be “state parties” rather than member states of course, but this is how the Court calls it on its own website, strangely!)
Interim measures (January 2013)
Pilot judgments (January 2013)
Use of international conventions by the ECtHR (November 2012)

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