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Just Satisfaction Awarded by the Court : Statistics
The Execution Department, which supports the Committee of Ministers in monitoring the execution of the Court’s judgments by the states, has recently expanded the factsheet webpages per country. They now also include the amounts of just satisfaction that the Court has awarded to victims of…
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Guest Post: Turning Water into Wine – The Concealed Metamorphosis of the Effective Control Extraterritoriality Criterion in Carter v. Russia
By Vassilis Tzevelekos and Antal Berkes (University of Liverpool) Introduction On 21 September 2021, the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) rendered its judgment in the case of Carter v. Russia. The case is…
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New Book: Responsive Human Rights – Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR
Corina Heri (University of Zurich) has published a book titled Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR (Hart, Bloomsbury Publishing). The book is available in open access here. Here is the abstract of the book: “Who is a vulnerable person in human rights…
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40 Years Dudgeon Judgment
Today, it is exactly 40 years since the issuing of the famous Dudgeon v the United Kingdom by the European Court of Human Rights. To mark the occasion of this landmark judgment, the Council of Europe has published a video and an…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The newest edition of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2021) is a special issue dedicated to ‘The Council of Europe’s Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protections’. It has…
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ECHR Articles in Newest NQHR
The newest edition of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR, volume 39, issue 3) includes two new academic articles related to the ECHR: * Dimitrios Kagiaros, ‘Reassessing the framework for the protection of civil servant whistleblowers in the European Court of…
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ECHR Symposium: Human Rights in the Digital Sphere
On 18 October 2021, the European Court of Human Rights, in collaboration with Japan and US consulate generals in Strasbourg, the René Cassin Foundation and Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law of the Council of Europe, are hosting a…
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PACE Committee Proposes a New Protocol to the ECHR on the Right to a Healthy Environment
This month, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is exploring different ways to tackle climate crisis through rule of law and human rights reforms. Here is a brief summary of PACE’s ongoing activities in this regard: “PACE’s Social Affairs…
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New Thematic Factsheet on the Rights of LGBTI Persons
The Department for the Execution of Judgments of the ECHR has issued a new thematic factsheet on the execution of the Strasbourg Court judgments concerning the rights of LGBTI persons. Here is a brief summary of the factsheet: “According to the…
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ECHR MOOC Starts Again on 7 September
Utrecht University’s free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the ECHR is starting again on 7 September 2021. Registration is open now! To enroll, please go to the Coursera platform. The MOOC entitled ‘Human Rights for Open Societies – An introduction into the…
