EU Court: Greece Violated Immigrants Rights
In yet another blow to Greece’s record of dealing with immigrants, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the country violated the human rights of two immigrants, one of them a minor and the other a woman, in...Read more...
Bloomberg: Stop the Putinization of Ukraine
The European Court of Human Rights ruled today on what was already obvious: that Ukraine's imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on abuse-of-office charges was politically motivated -- or at least unrelated to...Read more...
Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 is necessary and long overdue - Irish Times -- 09:28
First published: Thu, May 2, 2013, 01:05 The Cabinet’s agreement on Tuesday to the heads of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 is an important and welcome first step in filling a serious 21-year lacuna in the...Read more...
FF defers abortion legislation support decision
The Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party has decided to defer a decision on whether or not to support the Government's abortion legislation. After meeting in Leinster House for four-and-a-half hours, it was decided to reconvene...Read more...
Fact file: What is kettling?
Global News looks at kettling, a police tactic used recently to break up demonstrations in Toronto and Montreal. What is kettling? Kettling , a tactic widely used by police in Europe, is a way police contain and control large...Read more...
Matter of consent
YOU reported (29 April) that the Supreme Court has ruled that the Scottish Parliament exceeded its legislative competence when it passed the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003, the reason being that the act is not...Read more...
Christina Eckes: One Step Closer: EU Accession to the ECHR
The final version of the draft accession agreement was concluded on 5 April 2013. It will allow the EU to become a contracting party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), arguably on more than equal footing with...Read more...
UKRAINE: Daughter of jailed ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko, Yevgenia, says she hopes that President...
Lib Ref: RTV010197642 Title: UKRAINE: Daughter of jailed ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko, Yevgenia, says she hopes that President Viktor Yanukovich will pardon her mother, after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the...Read more...
Case note: Abdi v. the United Kingdom - violation of Article 5
Read the full text of the judgment and a press release at the website of the European Court of Human Rights. In the Chamber judgment in the case of Abdi v. the United Kingdom (application no. 27770/08), which is not final, the...Read more...
Senator Welcomes Cabinet Agreement On Abortion Legislation
xxxSenator Ivana Bacik today welcomed the publication of the heads of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.The Bill will implement the X case and ensure compliance with the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights...Read more...
Getting the sack for having the wrong beliefs
The dismissal of a bus driver who supports the BNP has exposed how fragile freedom of association is today. Thanks to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights last year, the UK Employment Rights Act has been amended so...Read more...
News from Central and Eastern Europe, Wednesday 1st May 2013
BALKANS Balkan Insight: Kosovo Serbs Mull Taking EU Deal to Court. ‘Kristimir Pantic, mayor of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo and deputy head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo, says he wants the EU-led deal on Kosovo to...Read more...
Allotment owner loses battle to keep plot for not growing vegetables
A man has pledged to take his council to the European Court of Human Rights after he was ordered off his allotment for not growing vegetables. Allotment owner Michael Rock grew pear, plum, apple, cherry and apricot trees on his...Read more...
Court of Justice of the European Union and European Court of Human Rights: recent judgments of...
The following cases were published as part of the weekly legal update by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) H. and B. v. The United Kingdom (nos. 70073/10 and 44539/11)...Read more...
UK TV News: Are You Being Served by Political Correctness?...
Offsite Comment: Are You Being Served by Political Correctness?... Stop the attack on the 70s golden era of comedy by Carl Jones BBC publicity described the scheduled TV programme Jerusalem: An Archaeological Mystery Story The...Read more...
ECHR to review Finnish trans marriage case
A Finnish case involving a woman who underwent gender reassignment surgery and now wants to have her female gender recognised in official documents is to be reviewed by the Grand Chamber Panel of the European Court of Human...Read more...
Savriddin Dzhurayev v. Russia
Savriddin Dzhurayev v. Russia, Application no. 71386/10, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 25 April 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/517fd6104.html [accessed 30 April 2013] This is not a UNHCR...Read more...
Case note: Removal of Chechen man from Austria to Russia would expose him to risk of ill-treatment
The full judgment is available here. In the Chamber judgment in the case of I.K. v. Austria (application no. 2964/12), which is not final, the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously: that there would be a violation of...Read more...
Joint Statement by EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton, and Commissioner Stefan Füle on...
European Commission MEMO Brussels, 30 April 2013 Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, and Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement...Read more...
German foreign minister: ECHR's decision on Tymoshenko confirms shortcomings of Ukrainian justice...
"The decision of the European Court of Human Rights has confirmed once again that in the field of Ukrainian justice and from the point of view of the rule of law there are still shortcomings that need to be overcome," German...Read more...
France shows Britain how to kick out likes of Abu Qatada
The country’s authorities first deport extremists — THEN hear their appeals. Yet we have spent ten years and £9.6MILLION trying and failing to deport jihadist Qatada. The European Court of Human Rights ruled again last month...Read more...
France shows how to kick out Qatada
The country's authorities first deport extremists -- THEN hear their appeals. Yet we have spent ten years and 9.6MILLION trying and failing to deport jihadist Qatada. The European Court of Human Rights ruled again last month...Read more...
Column: Here’s a win for all sides in the abortion debate
The 8th amendment, which protects the right to life of the unborn, is loved and hated in equal measure by both pro-life and pro-choice campaigners, writes Jane Horgan-Jones. It’s time to have a referendum on it.Read more...
Council of Europe Hailed for Religious Freedom Resolution - National Catholic Register -- 15:29
Council of Europe Hailed for Religious Freedom Resolution (700) Resolution 1928 says, the Assembly must ‘accommodate religious beliefs in the public sphere by guaranteeing freedom of thought in relation to health care,...Read more...
Case note: France will not deport refused asylum seeker to Chad
The full judgment is available only in French on the European Court of Human Rights website. In Chamber judgment in the case of Mo.M. v. France (application no. 18372/10), which is not final, the European Court of Human Rights...Read more...
Ex-Ukranian PMs arrest termed illegal
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that the arrest of Ukraine's ex-prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in 2011 was unlawful. The court held that "Tymoshenko's pre-trial detention had been...Read more...
Denouncing Human Rights, Legal Aid Woes and Animal Rights Advertising - The Human Rights Round
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular potpourri 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 here . This week,...Read more...
Unionists defeat Northern Irish gay marriage bill :: Guardian.co.uk -- Henry McDonald
Scene may now be set for gay couple to take case to European Court of Human Rights, says Amnesty International Of the 95 members of the Stormont Assembly to vote, 45 were in favour of the move to grant equality to gay...Read more...
Euro religious ruling could prove a headache for bosses
NEW guidelines following a European Court of Human Rights judgement create a “complex and delicate” balancing act for how bosses consider special requests from staff associated with their religion or other beliefs, according to...Read more...
Samsam Mohammed Hussein and Others v. the Netherlands and Italy
Samsam Mohammed Hussein and Others v. the Netherlands and Italy, Application no. 27725/10, Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights, 2 April 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/517ebc974.html [accessed 29...Read more...
