Articles written by Vanessa Bliecke on Völkerrechtsblog

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Drowning in Negligence

12.12.2023

Vanessa Bliecke Carla Borck

In July 2021, Germany faced a critical test of its implementation of Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), specifically focusing on the protection...

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How the Committee on the Rights of the Child Paved the Way for Stronger Abortion Rights

05.07.2023

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Vanessa Bliecke

On 13 June 2023, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CtRC) published its decision in the case of Camila v Peru (pseudonymised), marking a significant milestone in the...

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Don’t Screen Us Out?

16.06.2023

Vanessa Bliecke

Last month the legal team of Heidi Crowter, an activist with Down’s Syndrome who (so far unsuccessfully) challenged the British Abortion law, announced that they will take their case to...

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Too Young to Be a Criminal?

13.04.2023

Vanessa Bliecke

Tragic incidents and shocking crimes such as the recent murder of a 12-year-old girl in Germany (suspectedly) by her 12 and 13-year-old friends draw the public’s attention to a difficult...

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Women in International Law Vol. 1

Abortion in Latin America Through the Lens of the IACtHR

08.03.2022

Lea Bilke Vanessa Bliecke Ella Schönleben

Discussing reproductive rights – and more specifically abortion rights – in a legal setting is challenging. Legal arguments blend with political, moral and religious discussions, blurring the line between lex...

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Love Is Taboo

13.12.2021

Vanessa Bliecke Rouven Diekjobst

Prison inmates are inherently subject to far-reaching interferences with their civil rights and liberties. Still, states increasingly tend to exceed their legal boundaries by imposing additional restrictions on them. Consequently,...

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“Genetic Cleansing” Under the Guise of Women’s Rights?

16.07.2021

Nadine Grünhagen Vanessa Bliecke

The fight for the protection and recognition of disabled persons’ rights frequently ends before it even starts. While about 25% of fetuses are generally aborted, this percentage rises to about 90% when the fetus is diagnosed...

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#ManuelaJusticiayEsperanza?

19.03.2021

Vanessa Bliecke Ella Schönleben Jeremy De la Cruz Morales

On 10 and 11 March 2021, the public hearings on the historic case of Manuela and others v. El Salvador took place before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)....

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Extensive violence instead of intensive protection

11.11.2020

Vanessa Bliecke Nadine Grünhagen

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” (Article 1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Even though the concept of universal human rights is more than...

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Leaving no one behind?

24.04.2020

Vanessa Bliecke

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the rights and special needs of persons with disabilities are once again neglected dramatically. It is bitterly unsurprising that the topic arrived on the agenda...

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Trumping Mexico’s Sovereignty?

20.12.2019

Vanessa Bliecke Rouven Diekjobst

President Trump reportedly planned to label Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, stating that the US considered to “go in and clear out”. The Mexican response was quick to...

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No voice, no rights, no protection?

18.12.2019

Vanessa Bliecke

On 19th November, the animal protection organisation PETA filed a complaint with the German federal constitutional Court (BVerfG) against a law that legalizes the unanaesthetized castration of pigs for two...

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Us & them

24.05.2019

Benedikt Behlert Vanessa Bliecke

On 21 May 2019, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe published a report following her visit to Hungary from 4 to 8 February 2019. The report...