European Convention on Human Rights Archives

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Equality as Integral

08.11.2023

Vandita Khanna

Duarte Agostinho, the ‘biggest-yet climate case’ before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has, among other things, framed climate change as an issue of inequality....

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Why a Court Alone Won’t Bring Us to Heaven

12.10.2023

Julian A. Hettihewa

On 27 September 2023, the case of Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others (no. 39371/20) was heard by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human...

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Symposium
Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Towards a Feminist Interpretation of the ECHR’s Provisions on Access to Abortion

21.09.2023

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

While applications regarding the incompatibility of deadly restrictive abortion policies with the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) are piling up before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘Court’),...

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Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Locating Progress in the European Convention on Human Rights

19.09.2023

Jens T. Theilen

Progress may seem to be a temporal concept. That is certainly how it is usually understood in the literature on progress and international law. Statements of progress are said, for...

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Protecting Human Rights During the Climate Crisis

04.09.2023

Pranav Ganesan Helen Keller

This blogpost was inspired by a question that arose in an international climate case concerning emissions reductions obligations under human rights law. During the oral proceedings of KlimaSeniorinnen and Others...

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Who Is Responsible for Ensuring Human Rights in Global Sport?

04.08.2023

Michele Krech

In Semenya v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, the Court) has weighed in on the issue of sex testing in sport. The decision comes after a series...

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International Problems Require International Answers

12.07.2023

Joel Bella Julia Heuwing

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...

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Inhuman and Degrading ‘Hotspots’ at the EU Borders

27.04.2023

Kilian Schayani Max Maydell

On 4 April 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) published its judgment A.D. v. Greece, for the first time condemning the living conditions in the so-called ‘Hotspots’ on...

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Turkey’s Constitutional Court Back to Old Tricks

26.04.2023

Ezgi Güngördü

On March 9, 2023, Turkey's Constitutional Court (TCC) reversed its January 5, 2023 decision to "precautionarily" block the accounts of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the lawsuit demanding HDP’s...

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An Unneighborly Gift in Times of Need

20.04.2023

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

In February 2023, the news of devastating deadly earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria shook the globe. The horrifying effects of these earthquakes led to a death toll that has surpassed...

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The Future of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Human Rights

02.03.2023

Petra Sussner

Over the last decades, the regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone major changes in Europe. From Athens to Reykjavik, same-sex unions are legal reality. States must no longer require...

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Die „Bundesnotbremse II“ aus dem Blickwinkel der EMRK

02.02.2023

Isabella Risini

Die bundesweiten Schulschließungen in Deutschland infolge der Corona-Pandemie im Jahr 2021, die Gegenstand des Beschlusses des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 19. November 2021 waren, liegen nun dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR)...

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Questions of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia

27.01.2023

Gaiane Nuridzhanian

On 25 January 2023, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its decision on the admissibility of the interstate complaints lodged by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia in relation...

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Racial Profiling in Germany

Human Rights Standards for Accountability and Effective Remedies

13.12.2022

Elisabeth Kaneza

In Germany, for a long time, racial profiling was regarded as a problem that exists in other countries. However, in recent years more victims of racial discrimination have brought cases...

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Racial Profiling in Germany

Racial Profiling in Germany

13.12.2022

Sué González Hauck

In Basu v. Germany, an international body reminded Germany once again of its less-than-perfect human rights record regarding racial discrimination. In this case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...

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Immunity of International Organisations Discarded?

12.12.2022

Elizaveta Samoilova

Do international organisations enjoy immunity from jurisdiction under customary international law? In a recent ruling, Austria's Constitutional Court answered that question in the negative. The ruling arose in the context...

Book Review

The Principle of Effectiveness

10.10.2022

Daniel Rietiker Sofie Steller

In his latest book, Georgios A. Serghides, Judge and Section Vice-President at the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the ‘Court’), delves into the interpretation and application of the European...

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Between Accuracy and Dignity

30.09.2022

Jan-Phillip Graf Jannik Neumann

According to several news organizations, the Ukrainian forces use the facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify deceased Russian combatants in order to inform families about their kin’s death (here,...

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The Judgement of Solomon that went wrong: Georgia v. Russia (II) by the European Court of Human Rights

26.01.2021

Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou

On 21 January 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court or ECtHR) delivered its long-awaited judgment in the inter-state case Georgia v. Russia (II). This case concerns the...