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Draft plans for the EU’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights are like a “three-dimensional puzzle”, and the careful managing of delicate relationships will be needed to avoid tensions between countries and the respective courts, an expert has said. The Treaty of Li

A mother whose parental authority over her daughter was terminated just four months after the child was taken into foster care suffered a violation of her right to respect for her family life, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Ruling yesterday on a Dutch case, the Strasbourg court found

A lawyer in Serbia who was fined for insulting a judge did not suffer a violation of his right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. ÄŒedomir Backović was fined 100,000 Serbian dinars, around €910 at the time, after sarcastically referring to a court as compri

A prominent British businessman identified as the subject of allegations of sexual harassment and bullying by a member of the House of Lords, who used parliamentary privilege to circumvent a court injunction, did not suffer a violation of his privacy rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ru

The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights has urged Turkish authorities to uphold the right to freedom of assembly and expression as major protests continue across the country. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in protests following the arrest and detention of Ekrem Ä°mamoÄ

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, has called for further efforts to implement judgments from the European Court of Human Rights, following the publication of a new report. The annual report for 2024 on the execution of the court’s rulings from the Council of Europe&

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled against Russia in a case brought by two media organisations and 178 individuals over the criminalisation of dissent around the war on Ukraine. In its Chamber judgment, the court held unanimously that Russia had violated Article 10 of the European

Two bereaved families have launched a legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after they were denied financial support.

There is an urgent need for much clearer and comprehensive standards and their application on the use of solitary confinement for children in prisons and youth institutions in Europe, according to new research. In spite of an absolute prohibition within the Nelson Mandela rules – the standard

A criminal ban on buying sex does not violate the rights of sex workers, the European Convention on Human Rights has ruled. The Strasbourg court handed down its judgment in a case brought by 261 men and women of various nationalities who said they habitually and lawfully sell sex in France and argue

There is no right to assisted dying under European human rights law, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled by a 6-1 majority. Dániel Karsai, a prominent human rights lawyer in Budapest, Hungary, unsuccessfully argued that the criminalisation of physician-assisted dying (PAD) violated h

Rishi Sunak has said he is prepared to lead the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) if re-elected as prime minister following next month's general election. Mr Sunak, whose Conservative Party is well behind the Labour Party in opinion polls and in danger of slipping into third place

The European Court of Human Rights is “backsliding” by surreptitiously reversing its principles established to protect asylum seekers, according to a new study. It is a decade since the court first established that asylum seekers are inherently and particularly vulnerable in law.

The European Court of Human Rights has published a factsheet on past and pending cases concerning climate change. The document has been published following the Strasbourg court's landmark rulings yesterday on three climate cases. The applicants were successful in one of the cases, and unsuccessful i

Switzerland is failing to meet its human rights obligations by not taking sufficient action to tackle climate change, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in a landmark case. The Strasbourg court today handed down judgments in three landmark cases, which represented the first climate