Refoulement Beyond Pushbacks
20.09.2021
Since the Taliban took control of Kabul, the news has abounded in heart-breaking images of people trying to flee Afghanistan. Following some sympathetic responses, however, the discourse has shifted to...
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Livestream: COVID-19 Vaccinations and Human Rights
28.06.2021
Lisa M. Cohen
Rouven Diekjobst
Marko Milanovic
Iris Goldner Lang
Spyridoula Katsoni
The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated political, academic, and societal debates for the past one and a half years. As soon as they became available in late 2020, COVID-19 vaccines...
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COVID-19 Vaccines and Work-Related Rights
22.06.2021
As States’ capacities to provide COVID-19 vaccines rise, questions on whether employers can lawfully require their employees to get vaccinated arise accordingly. As the lawfulness of States imposing compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations has been already...
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The Future of “Climate Refugees” in International Law
05.06.2021
Spyridoula Katsoni
Jan-Phillip Graf
The issue of “climate refugees” has attracted scholarly attention for over a decade. The historic ruling of the Human Rights Committee (‘HRCtee’) in Ioane Teitiota v. New Zealand further increased...
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What Does the Vavřička Judgement Tell Us About the Compatibility of Compulsory COVID-19 Vaccinations with the ECHR?
21.04.2021
On the 8th of April, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) issued its widely-anticipated judgement on Vavřička and others v. the Czech Republic shedding some...
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The Right to Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights
19.03.2021
Abortion bans are back in Vogue! Nearly 165 years after the first massive demonstration on women’s rights, discussions on the extent to which interference with female bodies falls within States’...
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Populism’s lethal effect on the respect for human rights
11.03.2021
The rise of populism in Europe is a fact. Along with it, discussions of the effects of populism on the rule of law have arisen. The purpose of the present...
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Do compulsory vaccinations against COVID-19 violate human rights?
02.12.2020
As soon as the announcement of a vaccine against the coronavirus hit the news, discussions on the permissibility of compulsory vaccination multiplied. As anti-vaccination campaigns flourish and fake news spread...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
10.09.2020
Although the higher risk of COVID-19’s contagion among those residing in overly-populated asylum-seeker centres has been underlined by cassandric voices since the early days of its outbreak, Moria Reception and...
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