Abortion, Unease and Citizenship in Ireland
A great deal has been written about the recent developments in Irish abortion law. Most readers will know the basics. The Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, as interpreted in a case famously known as X , provides that...Read more...
UK TV News: Does anyone really give a f**k about swearing?...
Puritans should chill out. These words derive power from their taboo status Britain may be forced to lift its ban on broadcasting political advertising when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules on its lawfulness...Read more...
It's High Time for an International Environmental Court
When I tell people I work for an organization that advocates the creation of an International Court for the Environment , they invariably say, "That sounds like a great idea!" followed more often than I'd like with, "If we...Read more...
DOUBLE DEALINGS - ECHR Orders Swiss To Let Drug Dealer Stay
Michael Leidig A drug dealer who has convictions in both Germany and Austria and who fled to Switzerland using fake paperwork claiming he was an asylum seeker has been given the right to stay in the country by the European...Read more...
Abu Qatada: the law won | Conor Gearty
The judges who ruled against the Home Office aren't woolly liberals. They're just doing their job Omar Othman is a resident of this country – guilty of no crime and up to now facing no charges – whose home country wants to put...Read more...
Court orders France to pay €10,000 to murderer
The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered France to pay €10,000 in damages to an inmate in prison for murder, whom it said suffered "degrading and inhumane treatment" in a jail which has since closed.Read more...
Jeff King: Deference, Dialogue and Animal Defenders International
In Animal Defenders International, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the British ban on political advertising in the broadcast media (s.321 Communications Act 2003), consistently with the judgments of the UK House of...Read more...
Bulgaria to Pay EUR 25 000 Compensation in Police Murder Case Implicating Ex-PM
The Bulgarian state has been sentenced to pay BGN 50 000 (approximately EUR 25 000) in compensation to the family of businessman Todor Todorov, who was killed during a police operation back in 2003. The Bulgarian government...Read more...
EFD Rights Watch: Progress on cultural rights but Doubts Remain Over Christians’ Safety…
US human rights report criticizes Turkey’s judicial system, notes progress on cultural rights from Hurriyet Daily News The U.S. State Department has expressed criticism on the human rights situation in Turkey. Turkey: Amid...Read more...
We should drop the ban on political advertising on TV
IMG: european court of human rights] This week saw the failure of the attempt by Animal Defenders International to overturn the the UK's ban political advertising on radio and television. The Guardian reports: By a narrow...Read more...
Fair Decision-Making in Ukraine: Ensuring Personal Voting in Parliament
JURIST Guest Columnist Olga Synoverska is an LL.M. candidate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2013, and has interned at OMP Law Offices in Kyiv Ukraine while studying for her law degree. Synoverska...Read more...
ECHR Convicts Turkey of Violating Torture Ban
ECHR found Turkey guilty of violating torture ban, ordering the Turkish state to pay the applicants 24,000 euros as non-pecuniary damages and court expenses. The European Court of Human Rights announced its verdict on the case...Read more...
Christians being seen as uncool does not add up to persecution | Ian Birrell
taking a landmark legal case to the European court of human rights because they believe they are being punished for "thought crimes" by our courts acting in conjunction with a Conservative-led coalition . Their claims of...Read more...
Germany opened the "Conspiracy of the mentally ill human rights"?
The famous German defender Joerg Hensel - expert Azerbaijan NGO "For Human Rights", who expressed a few months ago in solidarity with the Azerbaijani human rights activist Eynulla Fatullayev on the human rights situation in...Read more...
Savita Halappanvar case: Husband to visit India to brief her parents
Praveen Halappanvar, the husband of the 31-year-old Indian dentist who died in an Ireland hospital following a miscarriage last October, plans to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights after an inquest into her...Read more...
Let’s end the nonsense of sterile PPBs and have proper paid for TV political ads
This is the way to boost turnout and engage the electorate Yesterday the UK won a case in the European Court of Human Rights to continue the blocking of US-style political advertising on British. By the narrowest of margins the...Read more...
Just how bad are American 'supermax' prisons? (Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev future home)
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected arguments by Babar Ahmad and three other terror suspects that they could face ill treatment in a "supermax" American high-security prison. But what is life like in the "Alcatraz...Read more...
UK TV News: Ofcom Arsing About Following Up Trivial Whinges...
Britain may be forced to lift its ban on broadcasting political advertising when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules on its lawfulness tomorrow. The campaign group Animal Defenders International (ADI) was told it...Read more...
Christians launch landmark defense of religious freedom
European Court of Human Rights to make final ruling on public displays of faith. Christians are to launch a landmark legal case arguing their religion is being treated as a “thought crime” by government and courts. Campaigners...Read more...
European Court of Human Rights improves document management with OpenText eDOCS
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is using a document management system from OpenText to handle applications and disseminate case law more efficiently. Chinese industrial espionage now a major cause of data breaches,...Read more...
Don’t ask whether the ECHR came to the right decision: ask whether it has any right to hear the...
I was surprised that the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in a case brought by a charity wanting to buy advertising space on British television aroused so little serious comment. The Court found by the thinnest of...Read more...
Editorial: Electioneering is not free speech
So much for the oft-repeated claim that the European Court of Human Rights routinely tramples on good old-fashioned common sense. Indeed, even the Strasbourg court’s most ardent critics must acknowledge that its most recent...Read more...
Azerbaijan: Authorities Targeting Youth Activists
Human Rights Watch, Azerbaijan: Authorities Targeting Youth Activists, 3 April 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5175026d4.html [accessed 22 April 2013] This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible...Read more...
VII Regional Moot Court Competition held in Slovenia
On 19-21 April, Civil Rights Defenders organises the 7th Regional Moot Court Competition in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia. Teams from Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and...Read more...
Savita`s husband plans India visit to brief her parents
London: The husband of Savita Halappanvar is planning to visit India to brief her parents on the next step in his legal battle to uncover the truth behind her death at an Irish hospital. Praveen Halappanvar, the husband of the...Read more...
Malta: Gay and trans council appointed to advise on introduction of same-sex civil partnerships
Malta currently does not have legal recognition for trans people A consultative council has been appointed by the ruling Labour government to give recommendations and prepare upcoming legislation relating to LGBT people. The...Read more...
The fight against gender stereotypes and parental rights: the case in France and other European...
French parents who wish to pass on certain values to their children will clash in the coming months over the Republic’s education system, which the current Government wishes to reform, particularly in relation to the...Read more...
News from Central and Eastern Europe, Tuesday 23rd April 2013
GEORGIA Vestnik Kavkaza: Ivanishvili promises to relieve the ECHR of complaints about Georgia. ‘In the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili met today...Read more...
Political Advertising TV Ban (Just) Upheld, Bad Law and International Human Rights - The Human...
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular smorgasbord 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 ....Read more...
ECHR Convicts Turkey of Police Murder
ECHR announced its verdict on the case of Ali Külah who was battered and shot dead by a police officer for not showing his ID. Turkey was ordered to pay 65,000 euros to Külah's family. The European Court of Human Rights...Read more...
