Julia Heuwing

On 28 January 2026, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) unanimously rejected a draft Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention). The...

It has recently been made public that Magnus Gäfgen, who in 2002 kidnapped and murdered a child in Germany, has applied for release from prison. The case attracted widespread attention...

In March, the former Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (“the Commissioner”), Dunja Mijatović, published a report, following up on her visit to Germany in November 2023, where she...

This year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is expected to deal with several climate change cases, through which the complainants seek to hold their countries of origin responsible...