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Governments’ Démarche against the ECtHR: Room for Discussion or Threats to Judicial Integrity

Recently, the leaders of nine European states, out of 46 Council of Europe members, issued a joint statement calling for a fundamental revision of the interpretation of…

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Anti-war Protest: The Historic Case of Novaya Gazeta and Others v Russia

Born into a Jewish family in Ukraine, Vasily Grossman’s monumental account of totalitarian Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate, which included a remarkable portrayal of the…

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Context, Content, and the ‘Threshold of Severity’: ECtHR’s Jurisprudence on Satire vs Hate

On 3rd December 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR/Court) delivered its decision in the case of Yevstifeyev and Others v. Russia [App. No. 226 of…

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Up in Smoke? Victim Status in Environmental Litigation before the ECtHR

While the ripples of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen continue to spread in the academic world, with discussions about potential implications for the future jurisprudence of the ECtHR, on January…

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Watch this space, Take 2: Execution of Strasbourg’s Landmark Climate Mitigation Judgment Verein KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland

In July 2024, I wrote, together with Chhaya Bharwaj, that the execution of the first climate mitigation judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, Verein KlimaSeniorinnen v.

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35 years after the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the best interests of the child remain a contentious issue: A case study on the repatriation of children from ISIS

On 20 November 1989, States ratified what would become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the…

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The Convention, the Court and the Climate: The Future in the Balance

KlimaSeniorinnen follow-up: five issues and ways forward With its KlimaSeniorinnen judgment, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) established a Convention-based climate…

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Alain Berset: The 15th Secretary General of the Council of Europe – A New Impetus for Human Rights in Europe?

On 18 September 2024, Alain Berset assumed the position of Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Europe’s oldest intergovernmental organisation representing 46 member states, for a…

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