Gay rights campaigner defends Ulster Unionist membership - The Guardian -- 06:00
Jeff Dudgeon faces criticism over decision to stay within party even though it helped veto gay marriage in Northern Ireland Campaigners may take a test case to the ECHR if unionists continue to block gay marriage in Northern...Read more...
The Week Ahead June 3-9
The Committee of Ministers will review the implementation by Ukraine of the European Court of Human Rights in cases concerning the death of journalist Georgy Gongadze and Yuri Lutsenko's sentence (to June 6). WEDNESDAY, June 5...Read more...
The Misrule of Law
Legality has emerged as the basis of authority in the modern world, replacing tradition and charismatic leadership. The problem is that those who are more interested in authority than legality are using the language of the rule...Read more...
Steroid Dealer: US Pressuring European Court of Human Rights
Mihael Karner, who was listed on Friday for sanctions under the US kingpin act for alleged trafficking of anabolic steroids, has written in a message to TV Slovenija that this was an attempt to pressure the European Court of...Read more...
Shutting down Russia’s LGBT community
Russia’s drive against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people continues unabated as the country’s Duma considers a law banning “homosexual propaganda”, Elena Vlasenko reports from Moscow. Before 1993, being a...Read more...
World To Unite Against Bilderberg
World To Unite Against Bilderberg Earlier today, Infowars received word from the Grove Hotel in Watford, England – the site of Bilderberg’s 2013 meeting – that reservations Alex Jones had made for himself and his team of...Read more...
Defamatory Tweets, Legal Aid Armageddon and Burkha Bans – The Human Rights Roundup
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular chocolate selection box of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups...Read more...
Mother, 41, died after bungling doctors missed aggressive cancer...
Mother, 41, died after bungling doctors missed aggressive cancer ELEVEN TIMES in a year and said her sore throat was just tonsillitis A mother of four died after ten different doctors over 11 months failed to spot that she had...Read more...
The charity that uses taxpayer cash to campaign for migrant benefits and protect a foreign rapist
Taxpayer’ money funded a team of lawyers fighting European Court of Human Rights cases on behalf of foreign criminals and illegal immigrants. The human rights quango the Equality and Human Rights Commission quietly gave nearly...Read more...
No right to refuse service, human rights court says
Judges rule religious beliefs don't excuse discrimination by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the appeals of two British citizens who claimed their Christian faith exempted them...Read more...
EGMR: Relinquishment to the Grand Chamber of a case concerning the wearing of the burka in public...
The Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights to which the application S.A.S. v. France (application no. 43835/11) had been assigned has relinquished jurisdiction to the Grand Chamber, neither party having objected to...Read more...
The Marriage (Same-sex couples) Bill and the Quadruple Lock
by Rebecca Hunt, Barrister In an attempt to calm fears that churches and other religious institutions will be forced to perform gay marriages, the government has given four legal assurances, which it hopes will mean British...Read more...
Socialist threatens court over tobacco affair
Socialist lawmaker Tibor Szanyi said on this week that he is taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights after parliamentary Speaker László Kövér refused to allow him to question Development Minister Zsuzsanna Németh...Read more...
Drug club owner plans new appeal
Officers raided the Dance Academy in Union Street in 2006 following an undercover police operation The owner of a Plymouth nightclub has started proceedings in the European Court of Human Rights against a conviction for drugs...Read more...
Anti-Islam Resistance Movement In Europe Deepens
Anti-Islam Resistance Movement In Europe Deepens May 27, 2013 by Louise Hodges There is a resistance movement in Europe, you’re just not going to hear about it, lest it jump the pond to the United States. They’ve been holding...Read more...
April Jones murder trial: Mark Bridger joins 'whole life' list
Mark Bridger joins a small group of prisoners whose crimes are deemed so appalling they will spend the rest of their lives behind bars. The former slaughterhouse worker was told by Mr Justice Griffith Williams: "There is no...Read more...
Voter Rights in Scotland: A Punishment to Fit the Crime?
Current Reform in Britain Greig Lamont looks at the justifications offered by the Scottish government for its decision to bar prisoners from voting in next year’s referendum on Scottish independence, and asks what they can tell...Read more...
European Court again chides Greece over discrimination against Roma schoolchildren
Headline Title: European Court slams Greece over Roma discrimination in schools 30 May 2013 The Greek authorities must immediately stop segregating Romani schoolchildren from their peers, Amnesty International urged today after...Read more...
April Jones Murder: Mark Bridger Jailed For Life - Sky News -- 13:56
April's parents speak of their relief as their daughter's killer, described as a lying paedophile, is told he will die in prison. Video: April Jones' Killer Jailed For Life April Jones went missing from near her home in...Read more...
Turkey doesn't care about international agreement | T24 - Turkey
Women in Turkey may not keep their maiden names after marriage. After a suit filed by two Turkish women against the law was rejected by a Turkish court, the European Court of Human rights (ECtHR) concurred on Tuesday with a...Read more...
Järvevana: 2013 3 months unaudited interim report
Tallinn, Estonia, 2013-05-30 15:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MANAGEMENT REPORT General information The company was formed after the demerger from AS Järvevana (former AS Merko Ehitus), as a result o...Read more...
Mike Judge: The Forgotten Bullying of the Registrar Who Dared to Believe in Marriage
They unilaterally designated her to be a civil partnership registrar without her consent, even though they knew this would put her in the impossible situation of choosing between her faith and her job. She told her employer...Read more...
Cypriot MP proposes sanctions for non-compliance with ECHR rulings – Famagusta Gazette
Cypriot MP proposes sanctions for non-compliance with ECHR rulingsFamagusta GazetteCypriot MP proposes sanctions for non-compliance with ECHR rulings. Additional sanctions could apply for governments not complying with European...Read more...
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rosetta stone spanish It is recommended to hire the services of experienced professionals for removal of . They help people in getting rid of carpenter ants and pests from their home. They make use of right insecticides and...Read more...
Noreen O’Meara: Reforming the European Court of Human Rights through Dialogue? Progress on...
Much progress has been made following the agreement of the Brighton Declaration on reforms to the working practices of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The Brighton Ministerial Conference in April 2012 prompted...Read more...
With Panorama jail sentences, Italy's libel law under fire
"Incredible," "staggering," "enormous," "out of time"--the expressions of outrage have been flying in Italy since a Milan magistrate sentenced to prison three journalists for the weekly magazine Panorama. On May 24, Andrea...Read more...
In defence of Strasbourg: a French city under siege again
Tory MEP aims to persuade the EU to abandon the costly 'Strasbourg circus'. Shame, says Nigel Horne Column Editor's Letter LAST UPDATED AT 07:41 ON Fri 31 May 2013 IF IT IS POSSIBLE to feel sorry for a city, then one might feel...Read more...
Convicted drug trafficker claims breach of human rights
Defence lawyers submit new application against Malta in European Court of Human Rights. Chris Mangion Four defence lawyers have submitted yet another application against Malta at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg...Read more...
Book on Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR
Giorgio Repetto has just published an edited volume with Intersentia entitled ‘The Constitutional Relevance of the ECHR in Domestic and European Law. An Italian Perspective’. This is the abstract: In recent years the European...Read more...
Follesdal, Peters, & Ulfstein: Constituting Europe: The European Court of Human Rights in a...
Andreas Follesdal (Universitetet i Oslo), Birgit Peters (Universität Bremen), & Geir Ulfstein (Universitetet i Oslo) have published Constituting Europe: The European Court of Human Rights in a National, European and Global...Read more...
