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Conflict and security force abuses
Armenia
18 September 2025
‘After Armen’s death, we planted two trees for him in the garden – they are big now … and we still don’t know what really…
Domestic measures for addressing “conflict-related sexual violence” (CRSV) in the context of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine Kateryna Ilikchiyeva and Kate Levine A significant…
International mechanisms for restoring the rights and interests of survivors Kateryna Ilikchiyeva and Kate Levine Universal jurisdiction The most severe international crimes, a category which…
Kateryna Ilikchiyeva and Kate Levine The existing mechanisms for restoring the rights of CRSV survivors are imperfect. They require significant changes at both the national…
Conflict and security force abuses
Chechnya Russia Ukraine
30 August 2023
Jessica Gavron In cases of enforced disappearance, or ED, the violation of a victim’s rights is both harrowing and legally complex, often involving their unacknowledged…
In December, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM) held its quarterly Droits de l’Homme (DH) meeting, which focuses on the implementation of judgments…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Blog
11 March 2022
Вопросы и ответы: Использование расследований по открытым источникам в судебных процессах по правам человека (PDF) Evidence gathered from open-source investigations (OSI) is being increasingly relied…
Blog
26 January 2022
By Toby Collis, Lawyer at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre; originally published in Strasbourg Observers, January 18, 2022. Should the European Court of Human…
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Blog
24 January 2022
By Dr. Ramute Remezaite, Senior Legal Consultant, European Human Rights Advocacy Centre; originally published in Strasbourg Observers, January 21, 2022. Introduction Article 18 of the…
Strasbourg
Blog
12 November 2021
By Dr. Alice Donald and Anne-Katrin Speck How far does—or should—the European Court of Human Rights recommend, or require, states to take specific non-monetary measures…
Violence against women and girls
Russia
Blog
14 January 2021
By Dariana Gryaznova, EHRAC Oak Fellow. Dariana is a human rights lawyer from Russia. She recently prepared a report for the Russian human rights NGO…
Blog
29 September 2020
By Constantin Cojocariu, EHRAC Lawyer, who over the years has litigated numerous disability, LGBT, and Roma rights cases before the European Court of Human Rights…
UK
Blog
3 September 2020
By Toby Collis, who recently joined EHRAC as a Lawyer. During his life, Sergei Magnitsky, after whom the Magnitsky laws around the world have been…
Azerbaijan
Blog
23 July 2020
By Ramute Remezaite, EHRAC Legal Consultant and Ulkar Aliyeva, former EHRAC Oak Fellow. This blog is re-published here with the kind permission of the European…
Azerbaijan
Blog
19 March 2020
By James Dowsett, EHRAC. 9 February 2020 was snap parliamentary election day in Azerbaijan. In early December 2019, the ruling New Azerbaijan Party unexpectedly requested…
By Jessica Gavron, EHRAC Legal Director It is widely recognised that the European Court of Human Rights is under huge pressure to reduce its caseload,…
Violence against women and girls
Blog
25 November 2019
By Professor Aisha K. Gill, Professor of Criminology at University of Roehampton, UK. Her main areas of interest and research are health and criminal justice…
Georgia
Blog
23 April 2019
By Nino Jomarjidze and Philip Leach This piece was originally published on Strasbourg Observers on 15 April 2019. Nino Jomarjidze is Strategic Litigation Coordinator at…
Azerbaijan Russia Strasbourg Ukraine
Blog
26 March 2019
By Dr. Veronika Fikfak When individuals are tortured or when their human rights are otherwise violated by European governments or domestic authorities, the European Court…
Strasbourg
Blog
15 March 2019
By Dr. Alice Donald and Anne-Katrin Speck How far does—or should—the European Court of Human Rights recommend, or require, states to take specific non-monetary measures…
Politically motivated cases
Strasbourg
Blog
8 February 2019
Stifling pluralism and democratic debate Darren S. Dinsmore On 20 November 2018, the European Court of Human Rights released its judgment on the pre-trial detention…
Olena Protsenko, a Lawyer at the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU), discusses the July 2017 ECtHR judgment Khlebik v Ukraine, and what it means…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
North Caucasus Russia
Blog
16 November 2017
In July 2017, the Russian LGBT Network (St. Petersburg) published a report into the persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya, following a joint investigation with Novaya…
This blog by EHRAC Legal Director Jessica Gavron and Lawyer Jarlath Clifford was originally published on Strasbourg Observers on 24 May 2017. Last month the…
North Caucasus Russia
Blog
18 July 2016
The perspective of one of the first Chechen applicants to the European Court of Human Rights by Libkan Bazayeva As someone who has successfully applied…
Reflections of the former Special Rapporteur on Chechnya for the Council of Europe (1999-2003) by Sophie Rust A supporter of EHRAC since its inception in 2003, Lord…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Blog
2 March 2016
This article by EHRAC Lawyer Kate Levine originally appeared in Institutionally blind? International organisations and human rights abuses in the former Soviet Union, a Foreign Policy…
Armenia Azerbaijan
Blog
6 June 2015
Philip Leach assesses the implications of the recent European Court judgments upholding the rights of refugees and IDPs displaced by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Introduction Last…
After excursions to Interlaken, Izmir and Brighton, Council of Europe states meet again this week, in Brussels, to discuss further reform of the Europe-wide human…
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