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Blog: Völkerrechtsblog
The post Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog.
Blog: Völkerrechtsblog
The post European Yearbook on Human Rights 2024 appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog.
Blog: UCL Uncovering Politics
This week we're looking at the European Court of Human Rights. What is it? Does it provide adequate justice to victims? And what should we make of the ongoing debates in the UK about its role?
Blog: Verfassungsblog
On April 9, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on three applications concerning the fight against climate change and the positive obligations of the signatory states of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in this respect. This blog post analyzes the Carême decision in which the Court declared inadmissible an application brought by a former mayor of a French town on the grounds of incompatibility ratione personae with the provisions of the Convention within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 (§ 88). In my view, this is an ill-developed decision, which could dangerously imply a regression in environmental matters.
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
Nicolas Kang-Riou (University of Lincoln) has posted International Law at the European Court of Human Rights; an Authority Enhancing Tool (Mélanges en l'honneur de Florence Benoît-Rohmer. Les droits de l'homme, du Conseil de l'Europe à l'Union européenne. Sous la direction...
Blog: Global Voices
"We reject in the strongest possible terms any effort that may be perceived as legitimizing the junta."
Blog: Legal Theory Blog
T. Wolff (Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam) has posted Cogency, Seriousness, Cohesion, and Importance: Assessing the Strasbourg Case-Law on Religion or Belief (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2023) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Campbell and Cosans...
Blog: Verfassungsblog
By recognizing the responsibility they have toward future individuals who will be standing in their shoes, current decision-makers are encouraged to adopt long-term perspectives and consider the broader implications of their actions beyond the immediate. This responsibility is echoed in numerous statements by the ECtHR in its rulings about how it understands its own role in European society and the world, and about the deference it believes it owes to domestic decision-makers on the one hand, and to its own past and future work on the other hand. In this light, the ECtHR has struck a pragmatic yet slightly cynical balance between the great demands it was faced with and the great responsibilities it owes to European citizens, to other institutions, and to itself.
Blog: Völkerrechtsblog
The post The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog.
Blog: Ideas on Europe
Let's get this straight: Human rights legislation is all about protecting ordinary citizens from excesses of the state – in other words, OUR GOVERNMENT. That's why it's important that the final arbiter must be the international court in Strasbourg because the European Convention on Human Rights exists to protect citizens from NATIONAL governments. For some […]
The post You and human rights appeared first on Ideas on Europe.
Blog: EU ROPE
Let's get this straight: Human rights legislation is all about protecting ordinary citizens from excesses of the state – in other words, OUR GOVERNMENT. That's why it's important that the final arbiter must be the international court in Strasbourg because the European Convention on Human Rights exists to protect citizens from NATIONAL governments. For some […]
The post You and human rights appeared first on EU ROPE.
Blog: Global Voices
In the story, little Loujain yearns to fly with her wings, but only boys had that right. Despite hardship, her family supports her dream, making her an inspiring heroine.
Blog: Völkerrechtsblog
The post International Human Rights Law appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog.
Blog: Völkerrechtsblog
The post Journalists Defending Human Rights appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog.
Blog: Völkerrechtsblog
The post Human Rights in Migration Societies appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog.