Our legal resources

Our resource library contains useful materials for lawyers and human rights defenders. On this page, you will find our latest legal guides, our podcasts, and a selection of interviews with judges, lawyers and applicants. Click on the buttons below to read summaries of our key cases and to access our Rule 9 submissions.

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Briefing Note: An overview of avenues for redress for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in Ukraine
Conflict and security force abuses Discrimination Ukraine Legal Resources
19 April 2023
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Guide: Preparing Witness Statements in International Human Rights Litigation
Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Russia Ukraine Legal Guide Legal Resources Witness Statements in International Human Rights Litigation: Preparation Guide
International human rights bodies – including the European Court of Human Rights and UN treaty…
Panel discussion (video): The impact on families of Russia's use of enforced disappearance in Chechnya and Ukraine
Conflict and security force abuses Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people Politically motivated cases Chechnya Russia Ukraine Videos Enforced Disappearance
On 30 August 2023, to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances,…
Guide: Requests for interim measures before the European Court of Human Rights
Conflict and security force abuses Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Russia Ukraine Legal Guide
Our latest guide to making requests for interim measures at the European Court of Human…
Guide: Using the UN CEDAW Committee and Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
Violence against women and girls Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Russia Ukraine Legal Guide
Violence against women is a particularly prevalent form of discrimination against women, and has become…
Briefing note: International avenues for bringing complaints of human rights violations against the Russian Federation after its expulsion from the Council of Europe
Russia Legal Resources
Russia’s expulsion from the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022 has a number of…
Podcast: Using Open Source Investigations (OSI) in human rights litigation
Conflict and security force abuses Ukraine Podcast
In this episode, based on a recording of an online event from March 2, 2022,…
Guide: Trauma informed legal practice for lawyers working with adult survivors of human rights violations
Legal Guide
Trauma Informed Legal Practice describes an approach to providing legal services that is responsive to…
Guide: Litigating self-defence in contexts of domestic violence against women
Discrimination Legal Guide
Evidence indicates that the majority of women who kill their intimate partners are, in fact,…
The right of victims of domestic violence to self-defence: stereotypes and prejudices in the decisions of Russian courts
Violence against women and girls Russia Legal Guide
Право жертв домашнего насилия на необходимую оборону: стереотипы и предрассудки в решениях российских судов
‘Litigating Article 18 cases’ podcast transcripts
Legal Guide
Follow our podcast on Litigating Article 18 cases using our transcript, available in English and…
Guide: Litigating ‘Article 18 cases’
Civic space and democratic accountability Legal Guide
What does Article 18 cover, when and how should it be raised, how do you…
Frequently Asked Questions: Litigating a case before the European Court of Human Rights
Legal Guide
The European Court of Human Rights has provided a number of helpful resources on aspects…
Guide: Instructing Expert Witnesses
Legal Guide
Expert witnesses can play a vital, even determinative, role in a case. An expert witness…
Guide: Litigating Cases of Violence Against Women
Discrimination Legal Guide
Violence against women is pervasive and gives rise to the most egregious violations of human…
Litigating self-defence in a domestic violence context: Interview with Mari Davtyan
Violence against women and girls Russia Interview
EHRAC spoke to Russian lawyer Mari Davtyan about her work and recent participation in EHRAC’s…
EIN Guide on Domestic Advocacy for the Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
Advocacy and implementation Legal Guide
The European Implementation Network (EIN) have produced a useful guide for developing a comprehensive advocacy…
Interview with Tamar Oniani, GYLA Strategic Litigation Lawyer and Legal Skills Development Programme 2019 Participant
Capacity Building Armenia Georgia Strasbourg Ukraine Interview
From 8 July to 11 July 2019, we welcomed seven partner lawyers from Armenia, Georgia…
Friendly settlements and unilateral declarations
Legal Guide
These resources present an overview of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights,…
Explainer: Council of Europe Infringement Proceedings against Azerbaijan
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society Azerbaijan Legal Guide
Bu məqaləni Azərbaycan dilində oxuya bilərsiniz. EHRAC Legal Consultant Ramute Remezaite and Intern Jack Dahlsen…
Human rights violations by the Russian security forces in the North Caucasus
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement North Caucasus Legal Guide
A record of judgments from the the North Caucasus by the European Court of Human…
The implications of Protocol 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights
Legal Guide
Protocol 15 provides for five amendments to the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention).…
Russian language guide to European Court litigation
Legal Guide
This manual is a practical reference work to European Court litigation with a particular focus…
The first six Chechen cases
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Legal Guide
This book is a Russian translation of the judgments in the first six Chechen cases…