Former UN Commissioner Robinson Addresses Climate Change and Human Rights
Former UN Commissioner on Human Rights Mary Robinson covered an array of topics, from the war in Ukraine to climate change, ...
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Flouting the European Court of Human Rights and Bringing Domestic Courts to Heel
Committee of Ministers 398th meeting (March 2021) (DH) - Rules 9.2 and 9.6 - Communication from NGOs (ARTICLE 19, Human Rights Watch, International Commission of Jurists, International Federation ...
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ECHR rules Ukraine violated privacy rights through covert investigation
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held unanimously on Thursday that Ukraine violated the right to respect for private life of three Ukrainian nationals and their lawyer by ordering unlawful ...
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Top European court backs woman whose husband got a divorce because she stopped having sex with him
The Strasbourg-based court said France violated article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, relating to the right to respect for private and family life. It said that any concept of ...
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Canada signs the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada has signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights ... 11 other ...
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The European Social Charter
The European Social Charter is a Council of Europe treaty that guarantees fundamental social and economic rights as a counterpart to the European Convention on Human Rights, which refers to civil and ...
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Human Rights Act reforms and the Bill of Rights Bill
It would have repealed and replaced the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates and makes the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) domestically enforceable. The Bill of ...
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Abolition of the death penalty
All this is incompatible with the provisions of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights which establishes the protection from torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The ...
European Human Rights Court To Examine ‘Pushbacks’ To Belarus
Belarus has been allegedly 'sending' migrants into the EU for years. Several EU member states are now facing legal scrutiny ...
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Top European human rights court backs French woman who refused sex with her husband
When H.W. exhausted all legal avenues in France, she brought her case to the European Court of Human Rights in 2021, arguing that the French court's decision was an unjust intrusion into her ...
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European rights chief presses Greece on deadly migrant shipwreck as questions remain
A top European human rights official has called on Greece to address allegations of negligence in a deadly 2023 migrant shipwreck off its southern coast ATHENS, Greece -- A top European human ...
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European Body Slams Greece on Migrants, Roma and Press Freedom
The Council of Europe Commissioner raised concerns over Greece's treatment of migrants, the human rights of Roma and ...