“In the centre of our movement stands the idea of a Charter of Human Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law.” Those words were spoken in 1948 by Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime leader but by…
“No child in the world is responsible for who his parents are or under which circumstances he had his birth,” Professor Stefan Schennach told me. It is clearly a very firmly held conviction. We were…
On the 14 June 2017 two Swedish midwives, Ellinor Grimmark and Linda Steen, filed complaints against Sweden for violations of their freedom of conscience and religion to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg….
Belgium must strengthen the rules on the integrity of members of the government and review the system of authorisation of outside activities by police officers. The Council of Europe’s Group of States against corruption (GRECO)…
France has a prison problem…its jails are overcrowded. In total, 70,818 people were incarcerated on October 1, 2019. It’s the fifth largest prison population in Europe. Thousands of prisoners share cells with at least 3…
In 2015, two Lithuanian young men, Pijus Beizaras and Mangirdas Levickas turned to a non-governmental organisation, the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Association, of which they are both members, asking it to complain…
Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders UK and Transparency International UK urge Azerbaijan to lift journalist’s travel ban Azerbaijan authorities should lift a travel ban against award-winning investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, UK-based rights groups urged…
Bosnia and Herzegovina must immediately close the Vučjak camp and take concrete measures to improve the treatment of migrants in the country. “The living conditions of hundreds of human beings in the improvised Vučjak camp…
The EU reaffirms its commitment to protect journalists and pays tribute to those who lost their lives for reporting the news. According to official statistics, over 1.000 journalists were killed in the world in the…
EU has decided to apply additional targeted measures against seven members of the security and intelligence forces of Venezuela The people of Venezuela continue to face a dramatic situation. The regional impact of the crisis…
Lack of Norwegian court oversight allows the removal of a child from its mother At what point does the removal of a child from their parent become necessary, and what is the best way to…
Are politicians exempt from criticism in the media? The ECHR doesn’t think so. The right of citizens to be critical of the State and its government is an important one, and it’s a right that…
66 suspected of arranging illegal adoptions, surrogacies and human egg trafficking in Greece On 23 September 2019, Greek law enforcement authorities, supported by Europol, dismantled an organised crime group involved in the trafficking of human…
The Dutch State bears very limited liability in the ‘Mothers of Srebrenica’ case. That liability is limited to 10 percent of the damages suffered by the surviving relatives of approximately 350 victims. That is what…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is a supranational or international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights (EHCR). The Court is based in Strasbourg, France. The ECHR provides European nationals, and…
