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The Convention on Facebook
In an apparent attempt to connect to younger generations of Europeans online, the Council of Europe has set up a Facebook page on the European Convention on Human Rights, accompanied by this text in marketing language: Let’s share about the European Convention…
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New blog on Human Rights in the UK
The human rights blogosphere is ever-expanding. Please take a look at a very professional and informative new blog on human rights in the United Kingdom: UK Human Rights Blog, which is made by 1 Crown Office row. The blog is devoted to…
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The Convention on Youtube
To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Court has launched a short youtube animation on all the rights contained in the Convention. It is currently available in English and French and other languages are to follow…
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New ECHR Articles on SSRN
In the last few weeks a number of papers and articles relatign to the ECHR have been posten on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), which makes them freely available. Here are a few of the notable ones: * Anne Peters, ‘The…
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Blood Transfusion HIV Judgment
The European Court has ordered Turkey to pay lifetime medical coverage to a teenager infected with HIV. The case, Oyal v. Turkey, was decided last week. It concerned a boy born in 1996, who was given blood transfusions for medical reasons right…
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UK Parliamentary Report on Judgment Implementation
One of the bottlenecks in the whoel ECHR system is the rapid and effective implementation of the European Court’s judgments by domestic juridictions. Indeed this has been labelled by many as one of the main areas in which improvement is needed. In…
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More on EU Accession to the ECHR
Last week the European Parliament held a hearing on the future accession of the European Union to the European Convention of Human Rights. A number of experts addressed the meeting. The speech of Serhiy Holovaty of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly…
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Article on Symbolic Legal Personhood
Yofi Tirosh of Tel Aviv University has just posted a paper online entitled ‘A Name of One’s Own: Gender and Symbolic Legal Personhood in the European Court of Human Rights’. This is the abstract: Legal regulation of surnames provides a fascinating venue…
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Book on ECHR and Northern Ireland
Oxford University Press has just published a book on the role of the European Convention on Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Brice Dickson’s ‘The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland’. This is the abstract: This book provides…
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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…
