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Conflict and security force abuses Discrimination
Chechnya Russia
EHRAC News
7 October 2023
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Conflict and security force abuses
Chechnya Russia Ukraine
EHRAC News Legal Resources Press Release
30 August 2023
A newly-expanded online legal database provides case law and legal standards from around the world for lawyers litigating cases involving enforced disappearances. For some, enforced…
Discrimination
Georgia
EHRAC News
21 August 2023
Content warning: domestic violence; presumed suicide. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found violations of the right to life (ECHR Article 2) and…
Conflict and security force abuses
Chechnya Russia Ukraine
EHRAC News Events
9 July 2023
On 30 August, to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, EHRAC and Bertha Dochouse will present a screening of 'Barzakh', an…
Discrimination
Georgia
EHRAC News
19 April 2023
Content warning: Violence against women, honour-based violence, suicide The Georgian authorities’ failure to investigate and prosecute gender and honour-based violence contributed to a woman’s death…
Conflict and security force abuses Discrimination
Georgia
Case Summary EHRAC News
19 April 2023
Content warning: domestic violence, police violence, murder The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the Georgian authorities failed to protect the life…
Conflict and security force abuses Discrimination
Georgia
Case Summary EHRAC News
3 March 2023
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that the Georgian authorities’ failure to adequately investigate the killing of a teenager as part of…
Conflict and security force abuses
Russia Ukraine
EHRAC News
24 February 2023
On this, the first anniversary of the Russian Federation’s illegal and devastating war on Ukraine, we stand with the many victims of this conflict and…
Conflict and security force abuses
Russia Ukraine
EHRAC News Legal Resources
10 February 2023
A new online resource provides information on the existing pathways to legal accountability, for those responding to human rights violations and crimes resulting from the…
Civic space and democratic accountability
Russia Ukraine
EHRAC News Legal Resources
3 February 2023
An Ukrainian human rights organisation has asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to rule on the Russian Federation’s action in blocking its website…
Discrimination
Georgia
Case Summary EHRAC News
30 January 2023
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that decisions by Georgia’s Civil Status Agency to deny applications by three transgender men to have…
EHRAC has announced that Jessica Gavron and Laure Trebosc have been appointed as its new co-Directors. In October 2021, EHRAC's founding Director, Philip Leach, announced…
Civic space and democratic accountability
Russia
EHRAC News
7 October 2022
EHRAC is delighted that its longest standing partner, Memorial, has been co-awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The 2022 Prize was shared with two other…
Conflict and security force abuses
Chechnya Russia Ukraine
EHRAC News Legal Resources
30 August 2022
Today, EHRAC has launched the Enforced Disappearance Legal Database (EDLD), which is the first resource to contain the leading jurisprudence, legislation and soft law on…
Civic space and democratic accountability Conflict and security force abuses
Azerbaijan
Case Summary EHRAC News
14 July 2022
Content warning: death by stabbing On July 7, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the domestic investigation into the fatal stabbing…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Armenia
Case news Case Summary Impact case study
27 June 2022
Content warning: homophobic violence The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the Armenian authorities failed to protect the owner of the country’s…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news Press Release
14 June 2022
Russia’s ‘foreign agents’ legislation has been deemed incompatible with the rights to freedom of assembly and association by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Videos
12 May 2022
Tkhelidze v Georgia concerns the femicide of M.T., a university professor, by her ex-husband L.M. after a prolonged period of domestic violence. Despite more than…
We are very saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elizabeth Teague, a staunch friend to EHRAC and to justice and fairness in Russia…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
9 May 2022
Content warning: police violence On April 28, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Paata Kvirikashvili was ill-treated by police, the latest in a series…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Videos
28 April 2022
Between 2006-2009, the Tbilisi-based Inclusive Foundation (IF) was a central meeting point for Georgia’s queer community. In December 2009, police raided the IF’s offices, which…
Russia
Press Release
16 March 2022
The Council of Europe (COE) has today confirmed Russia will cease to be a member state of the body, effective immediately, in response to its…
EHRAC News
15 February 2022
ІНФОРМАЦІЙНИЙ БЮЛЕТЕНЬ – ЧАСОВІ ОБМЕЖЕННЯ І ПРОТОКОЛ №15 ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКОЇ КОНВЕНЦІЇ З ПРАВ ЛЮДИНИ Protocol 15 to the Convention, which amongst other things, reduces the application…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Case news Press Release
28 January 2022
Content/trigger warning: descriptions of homophobic violence The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled the Georgian authorities failed to protect protesters at a rally…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Press Release
29 December 2021
In response to the decisions today and yesterday taken by courts in Russia to liquidate International Memorial and Memorial Human Rights Center (MHRC), the European…
Russia
Press Release
29 December 2021
LONDON, 29 December 2021 – This morning, the Moscow City Court ordered the liquidation of Memorial Human Rights Center. This decision follows the Supreme Court’s…
Georgia
Case news Press Release
16 November 2021
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has granted interim measures in a case that has led Georgia to agree to reform a decree setting…
Repression of civil society
Russia
12 November 2021
Joint statement by Russian and international human rights groups in support of Memorial Russian authorities’ move to shut down Memorial, one of Russia’s oldest and…
Repression of civil society
Russia
EHRAC News
12 November 2021
We deplore the action being taken by the Prosecutor’s Office in Moscow seeking the liquidation of International Memorial and Memorial Human Rights Center for allegedly…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Discrimination
Armenia Azerbaijan
Case Summary EHRAC News
11 November 2021
Content warning: descriptions of extreme violence and torture The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found Azerbaijan responsible for the death of an elderly…
Ukraine
Case news Press Release
28 October 2021
Ukraine violated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by not allowing internally displaced people (IDPs) to vote in local elections in the capital city…
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news Case Summary Press Release
22 October 2021
In a judgment last week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that human rights lawyer Asabali Mustafayev and his NGO’s rights were violated…
Russia
Case news Press Release
20 October 2021
Download press release (English/Russian) After years of waiting, this week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that Russian authorities failed to conduct an…
Philip Leach, Director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), is set to stand down from the role in February next year. Having led…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Case news Case Summary
27 September 2021
Forum: European Court of Human Rights Case No.: 33056/17 Judgment date: 8 July 2021 This case concerns the femicide of M.T., a university professor, by…
Like much of the human rights community, the team at EHRAC were shocked by news of the unexpected passing of Jonathan Cooper OBE, who died…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Press Release
31 August 2021
EHRAC PRESS RELEASE on 31 August 2021 In a long-awaited judgment today, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia in breach of the European…
2 July 2021
By Toby Collis, Lawyer, EHRAC It is with great pleasure that we have the opportunity to receive and comment on Judge Pinto de Alberquerque’s most…
Lord Frank Judd EHRAC is very saddened to hear about the death of Lord Frank Judd. Lord Judd spoke at the public event held to…
Repression of civil society
North Caucasus Russia
Case news Case Summary
11 March 2021
Natalia Estemirova was one of the most outstanding human rights defenders to have worked in Chechnya. She was kidnapped and murdered in 2009. Natalia would…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case news
16 February 2021
The European Court of Human Rights today ruled that the Russian authorities were responsible for the torture of a man at a police facility in…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus
Case news
11 February 2021
On 9 February 2021 the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia in a group of cases concerning ill-treatment, forced confessions, and the unfair convictions of…
Violence against women and girls
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
29 January 2021
EHRAC has successfully applied to the European Court of Human Rights against Russia on behalf of a Dagestani woman who alleges that the authorities’ failure…
Violence against women and girls
Russia
29 January 2021
EHRAC has successfully applied to the European Court of Human Rights against Russia on behalf of a Dagestani woman who alleges that the authorities’ failure…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
16 December 2020
Five Azerbaijani human rights lawyers are taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights in which they allege that their Convention rights were…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
14 December 2020
Close to twenty years have elapsed since the Russian security services began forcibly disappearing people as a tool of war and repression in Russia’s North…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Armenia
Case news
3 December 2020
Yerevan’s D.I.Y. Club was once a popular spot for Armenia’s LGBT+ community, and one of the few public venues available for sexual minorities in a…
Violence against women and girls
Former Soviet Union
EHRAC News
30 November 2020
EHRAC hosted its first virtual expert roundtable on 29 September 2020, bringing together eight female litigators from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, to share experiences…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
29 October 2020
The European Court of Human Rights has found, in three separate judgments in October, that Russia violated protestors’ freedom of assembly when police made arrests at…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
22 October 2020
On 6 October 2020 the European Court of Human Rights found that Russia’s anti-extremist legislation failed to safeguard the free expression of two Novorossiysk human rights…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
15 October 2020
On 6 October 2020 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of an Ingush woman who was…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Russia
Case news
13 October 2020
dThe European Court of Human Rights today ruled that Russia unlawfully interfered with LGBT+ activists’ right to freedom of assembly after they were arrested and…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Case news
8 October 2020
The European Court of Human Rights today found that police ill-treated NGO staff and members of the LGBT community during a homophobic raid carried out on Georgia’s…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
6 October 2020
On 1 October 2020 the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) found Azerbaijan responsible for the ill-treatment of investigative journalist Idrak Abbasov, who was brutally beaten…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Case news
25 August 2020
EHRAC has received news that Belgium has granted refugee status to an applicant, a transgender man, on the basis of discrimination and mistreatment that he…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
20 August 2020
On Tuesday 18 August, EHRAC participated in a European Implementation Network (EIN) briefing given to the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (“CM”) about the Ilgar Mammadov group of…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
13 July 2020
Four critical news websites blocked by the authorities in Azerbaijan have responded to the Government’s submissions to the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) and…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
3 July 2020
EHRAC and Amnesty International have urged the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to call upon the Government of Azerbaijan to end the restrictive situation for human rights defenders…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
North Caucasus Russia
EHRAC News
2 July 2020
EHRAC and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have filed a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) arguing that a case concerning the alleged abduction and…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
26 June 2020
On Tuesday 23 June 2020, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian police were responsible for the death of a detainee who they claimed had…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
25 June 2020
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today ruled that Azerbaijan’s suspension and disbarment of a prominent human rights lawyer was in breach of his freedom of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
23 June 2020
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today ruled that the Russian authorities unlawfully dispersed a public demonstration intended to commemorate the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya in…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Azerbaijan
Case news
26 May 2020
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today ruled that Azerbaijan granted “virtual impunity” to a convicted murderer because of the ethnic Armenian origin of…
Repression of civil society
Georgia
Case news
7 May 2020
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today found that the trial of a man for drugs offences was unfair because of the inherent unreliability of the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Azerbaijan
Case news
28 April 2020
EHRAC, together with an Azerbaijani partner lawyer, has lodged an application at the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) on behalf of five young men…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
27 April 2020
On 23 April 2020, Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court granted full acquittal to the prominent human rights defender Rasul Jafarov, who EHRAC represents, ordering him to be…
Repression of civil society
Georgia
EHRAC News
14 April 2020
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (“CEDAW”) has officially confirmed the “satisfactory implementation” of its recommendations to the Georgian Government in…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case news
24 March 2020
The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) today ruled that Russian state agents were responsible for the arbitrary execution of a young man in Ingushetia in December…
On 20 January 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) required Ukraine to respond to a case concerning the death of a 10-year-old boy on a…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
12 March 2020
On 25 February 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the Russian authorities illegally disrupted a private meeting convened by a charity organisation in…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case news
6 March 2020
On Friday 6 March 2020, the prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, his Anti-Corruption Foundation (“FBK”) and nine of his associates and associated entities submitted…
Repression of civil society
North Caucasus Russia
EHRAC News
11 February 2020
Reacting to the news of the recent, thuggish attack on human rights lawyer Marina Dubrovina and journalist Elena Milashina in a hotel lobby in the Chechen capital…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
10 February 2020
On 4 February 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Russia responsible for the abductions and presumed deaths of five men from Ingushetia, Dagestan and other…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
10 February 2020
On 23 January 2020, EHRAC petitioned the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to call for the lifting of a fresh travel ban imposed on…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia Russia
Case news
6 February 2020
On 29 January 2020, EHRAC, together with the Equal Rights Trust and Equality Now, submitted a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in a…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case news
4 February 2020
On 4 February 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Russia responsible for the torture of seven men in police custody, and the inhuman…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
30 January 2020
On 10 October 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that a Georgian politician was denied a fair trial when in 2006 the Government leaked…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
23 January 2020
On 7 January 2020, EHRAC filed a submission to the Committee of Ministers (CoM) of the Council of Europe in a case concerning the prominent…
Russia responsible for the disappearances and presumed deaths of twenty people, European Court rules
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
23 January 2020
On 21 January 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Russia responsible for the disappearances and deaths of nineteen men and one woman…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case news
21 January 2020
EHRAC has intervened in a high-profile case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), brought by the prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalnyy, arguing that political…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
15 January 2020
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on 14 January 2020 that a Russian soldier who allegedly committed suicide just hours after being subjected to a…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Armenia Azerbaijan
Case news
14 January 2020
On 20 December 2019, EHRAC, together with the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, submitted a third-party intervention at the European Court…
Violence against women and girls
Former Soviet Union
EHRAC News
9 January 2020
On 19-20 November 2019, EHRAC convened an expert roundtable on litigating sexual violence against women, bringing together ten lawyers and activists experienced in tackling the…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
31 October 2019
EHRAC, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) filed a joint-submission on 23 October 2019 informing…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Case news
29 October 2019
Nikolo Ghviniashvili understood that he was male from a very young age. Since his twenties, Nikolo – who was registered as female at birth –…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
10 October 2019
On 20 September 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated the case of four independent news websites blocked by the authorities in Azerbaijan. The four…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia Russia South Ossetia
Case news
10 October 2019
The family of a Georgian man who was murdered at a checkpoint by an Abkhaz ‘border guard’ have maintained Russia’s responsibility for his killing in…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
8 October 2019
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 8 October 2019 found Russia responsible for the disappearances and deaths of five men from Chechnya, Ingushetia and…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
1 October 2019
The European Court of Human Rights (ECthR) has rapidly communicated the case of a 19-year-old Kist man who was fatally shot in his bedroom by…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
26 September 2019
The Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe today urged Azerbaijan to quash the conviction decisions and delete the criminal records of eight applicants known collectively…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Russia
Case news
25 September 2019
Four Russian LGBT activists arrested and detained during peaceful protests against the State Duma’s adoption of a “homosexual propaganda law” have responded to the Government’s arguments…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
27 August 2019
On 27 August 2019, the European Court of Human Rights held the Russian authorities responsible for the abduction, disappearance and presumed deaths of thirteen men from…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia Ukraine
Case news
19 August 2019
Five years since the Battle of Ilovaisk in eastern Ukraine, there is little sign of resolution of the armed conflict between Ukrainian Armed Forces and…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
25 July 2019
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Azerbaijan’s refusal to register the Human Rights Club (HRC), an NGO led by prominent human rights defender Rasul…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
18 July 2019
Yalchin Imanov is the latest of at least two dozen human rights lawyers to have been disbarred, had their licences suspended, been criminally prosecuted or otherwise…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
18 July 2019
The applicants in the case are Mr Yuri Vazagashvili and Ms Tsiala Shanava, parents of Z.V., a 22-year-old man, shot in his car during a police operation…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Russia
Case news
17 July 2019
On 16 July 2019, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia’s refusal to register associations set up to promote and protect the rights of lesbian, gay,…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
4 July 2019
On 2 July 2019, the European Court gave judgment in a group of cases (Ryabinina and others v. Russia), submitted by nine applicants, who were…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Case news
4 July 2019
Over the last year, EHRAC and our partners at the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA), Human Rights Centre, Union Sapari, and Georgian Democracy Initiative have litigated five cases of…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Armenia
Case news
13 June 2019
How does a Facebook press conference about the 2014 Eurovision song contest escalate into a vitriolic attack on the LGBTI community and their allies in…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
5 June 2019
A memorial to Temirlan Machalikashvili (EMC) In the early hours of 26 December 2017, masked and armed State Security Service officers raided Temirlan Machalikashvili’s home…
Georgia
Case news
25 April 2019
Ordinarily, the opening of a new school would be a cause for celebration for the local community. But in 2014, in the village of Kobuleti…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Azerbaijan
Case news
17 April 2019
In September 2017, over 80 LGBT+ people were arrested by police in a series of raids in Baku, sentenced to administrative detentions, and held in…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Case news
26 March 2019
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია Imagine moving to a country and living there for over a decade. You have a valid work visa and a job.…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Georgia
Case news
7 March 2019
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია “The process of legal gender recognition is not regulated by the State. This increases the risk of unemployment and poverty for…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
22 January 2019
It is almost twenty years since the start of the second armed conflict in Chechnya, which formed the backdrop for countless enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
20 December 2018
Ten months after Rusiko Maisuradze’s son started his prison sentence, his family noticed he was unwell. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and died five months…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
5 December 2018
Alayif Hasanov (Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety) Alayif Hasanov is one of the courageous Azerbaijani human rights lawyers who has dared to represent imprisoned…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
4 December 2018
After years of anguish from not knowing what had happened to their loved ones, the families of 17 ‘disappeared’ men from the North Caucasus have…
Violence against women and girls
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
20 November 2018
When S.N.* was seventeen, her father complained to the authorities that she had been repeatedly forced to have oral and anal sex with eleven men from the…
We are looking for a 12 month maternity cover to join our team as Head of Programmes. You will be responsible for all operational stages…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
24 October 2018
When 21-year-old Bayram Mammadov and 22-year-old Giyas Ibrahimov sprayed graffiti on a statue of Azerbaijan’s former president, Heydar Aliyev, they may have expected a police…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
17 October 2018
At 3:30am one October night in 2009, Khamutkhan Makhloyev and his wife awoke to armed men in masks and camouflage uniforms breaking into their home.…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
2 October 2018
Today, the European Court of Human Rights found that Russian law enforcement authorities were responsible for the 2004 abduction, torture and resultant death of Rasul Tsakoyev,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Azerbaijan
Case news
28 September 2018
In the evening of 26 November 2015, masked security forces stormed a house in the town of Nardaran, Azerbaijan, where the Muslim Unity Movement (MUM)…
Advocacy and implementation Politically motivated cases
Ukraine
Case news
25 September 2018
Anatoliy Denisov was President of the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal when he was unfairly dismissed from his post before the expiry of his term…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
20 September 2018
What happens when you take action following allegations of fraud during parliamentary elections? What if you spent your life defending victims of human rights abuses,…
Mobile phones, internet usage, social media, messaging, app stores and even dating services – legislation enacted in Russia over the last five years has ensured…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia Ukraine
Case news
1 September 2018
EHRAC has commissioned digital investigations agency Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths University, London) in a case concerning the battle of Ilovaisk in August 2014, which we are litigating with…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Ukraine
Case news
31 August 2018
Their home was occupied. They had to move, rebuilding their lives and careers in a city hundreds of kilometres away. They lived in their new…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
13 June 2018
It is everyone’s worst nightmare – the disappearance of a family member. We would expect the police to help find them. But what if they…
Politically motivated cases
Azerbaijan
EHRAC News
4 June 2018
“The research carried out by Yale’s Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic will be indispensable as we argue that Azerbaijan has violated the European Convention on…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
12 March 2018
Almost six years have passed since the Russian parliament enacted legislation requiring any organisation receiving funding from abroad to register as ‘foreign agents’. In that…
From 5 to 8 March 2018, twelve lawyers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine joined the EHRAC team for our annual Legal Skills Development Programme (LSDP)…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Politically motivated cases
Armenia
Case news
1 March 2018
Հոդվածի հայերեն տարբերակը կարող եք կարդալ այստեղ: “After Armen’s death, we planted two trees for him in the garden – they are big now ……
Advocacy and implementation Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
21 February 2018
Ivane Merabishvili appears during a preliminary hearing of his case. (Reuters) იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია Under cover of darkness one night in December 2013, Ivane…
Capacity Building
Ukraine
EHRAC News
20 February 2018
Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. “I really like the combination of practical and theoretical approaches. I will use the knowledge and skills I…
Environment
Russia
Case news
16 February 2018
One icy December night in 2011, an oil rig with 67 crew members capsized in the middle of the freezing Sea of Okhotsk, off Russia’s…
Repression of civil society
EHRAC News
14 February 2018
EHRAC and a consortium of 7 other NGOs have issued a statement expressing serious concerns about the current wording of the draft Copenhagen Declaration on the future of…
Advocacy and implementation
Ukraine
Case news
6 February 2018
Oleksandr Volkov in front of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, following his reinstatement Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. Oleksandr Volkov was elected to…
Advocacy and implementation Conflict and occupation abuses
Georgia Ukraine
EHRAC News
30 January 2018
The last ten years have seen Russian military incursions into Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, and Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Ukraine. The…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
23 January 2018
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია Two years have passed since the Georgian Government admitted to breaching the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in four of our cases…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia Russia
Case news
11 January 2018
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია In May 2016, Giga Otkhozoria was driving with two acquaintances from Zugdidi in Georgia to Abkhazia to deliver food for a…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia Ukraine
Case news
9 January 2018
Area under ‘separatist’ control (BBC/Ukraine National Security and Defence Council, 2014) Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. Almost four years after the armed conflict…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
9 January 2018
It is everyone’s worst nightmare – the disappearance of a family member. We would expect the police to help find them. But what if they…
Conflict and occupation abuses Repression of civil society
Crimea Ukraine
EHRAC News
1 January 2018
Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. Since the annexation of Crimea in March 2014, respect for human rights has been under increasing threat, with…
Environment
Georgia
Case news
15 December 2017
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია Perched on a steep mountainside above a river, the remote village of Vedzatkhevi certainly sounds picturesque. But after a landslide in…
Russia
Case news
12 December 2017
Today the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the disclosure of highly sensitive medical information – including by a member of the public – breaches the…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Armenia Azerbaijan
Case news
12 December 2017
On 12 December 2017, the European Court of Human Rights issued its long-awaited follow-up decisions to the ground-breaking 2015 Grand Chamber judgments on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,…
Capacity Building
Strasbourg UK
EHRAC News
11 December 2017
As participants at the High-Level Expert Conference ‘2019 and Beyond: Taking Stock and Moving Forward from the Interlaken Process’, held in Kokkedal, Denmark from 22-24 November…
Capacity Building Repression of civil society
Armenia Russia Ukraine
EHRAC News
4 December 2017
The words ‘Foreign Agent’ graffitied on the wall of Memorial Human Rights Centre’s offices in Moscow. When dealing with complex, and often distressing, issues, it…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
28 November 2017
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია “The Grand Chamber has paved the way for individual victims of politically motivated detentions and prosecutions across Europe to challenge state…
Politically motivated cases
Azerbaijan Georgia
Case news
23 November 2017
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია “I was arrested on the orders of the Azerbaijani authorities, but it was the Georgian authorities that treated me unlawfully and…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
21 November 2017
Ivane Merabishvili appears during a preliminary hearing of his case. (Reuters) იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია On 28 November, the Grand Chamber of European Court of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
2 November 2017
On 2 November 2017, the European Court of Human Rights initiated the examination of the case of Maxim Kuriyev, who was killed by the Ingushetia Federal…
Advocacy and implementation Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
25 September 2017
Bu məqaləni Azərbaycan dilində oxuya bilərsiniz On 21 September 2017, EHRAC and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) submitted an urgent appeal to three UN Special Rapporteurs on behalf of…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
22 September 2017
Bu məqaləni Azərbaycan dilində oxuya bilərsiniz Rasul Jafarov (Credit:People in Need’s“Doubling Downon Repression”exhibition.) On 21 September 2017, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers called on the…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Case news
20 September 2017
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია EHRAC and our partners at the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) and Union Sapari (Tbilisi) are litigating three femicide cases from Georgia before the European Court of Human…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
18 September 2017
“I have been arrested, and attacked. My family and my home have been attacked. It is not possible to find justice in Azerbaijan. Now the…
Politically motivated cases
Azerbaijan
EHRAC News
11 September 2017
“We are delighted to be collaborating again with Yale Law School and that the research carried out, and legal points developed, by the Clinic students…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
1 September 2017
Rasul Jafarov (Credit:People in Need’s“Doubling Downon Repression”exhibition.) Lawyers for prominent human rights defender Rasul Jafarov have today asked the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Armenia
Case news
28 August 2017
On 28 August 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) requested the Armenian authorities account for the deaths of Robert Hovhannisyan and Andranik Sargsyan, who were…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case news
25 July 2017
Today the European Court of Human Rights held that Russian authorities failed to provide Vyacheslav Yankovskiy, an insulin-dependent type-one diabetic, with adequate medical care while he was…
Our 2016 Annual Report is now available online. 2016 was in many ways a troubling year for the human rights community, with continuing repression of our partners in…
Environment
Georgia
Case news
13 July 2017
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია Today, two Tbilisi residents achieved a victory before the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that the Georgian Government was responsible…
Politically motivated cases
Azerbaijan
Case news
28 June 2017
Four prominent independent or opposition news websites are challenging the Government’s and courts’ decision to block access to them in Azerbaijan. On 21 June 2017,…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
23 June 2017
“The Azerbaijani government wants to deceive the world by freeing me from prison, while my freedoms remain limited even out of jail. I can’t travel,…
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
12 June 2017
Leyla and Arif Yunus. Credit: “Doubling Down on Repression” (People in Need) On 12 June 2017, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC, based at Middlesex University) filed…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
7 June 2017
Rafig Tagi, who was killed in 2011 On 16 May 2017, the European Court of Human Rights has begun its examination of the case of journalist…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
5 June 2017
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია The landmark 2010 case of Klaus and Yuri Kiladze v Georgia paved the way for many thousands of Georgian victims of Soviet repression…
Advocacy and implementation
Russia
Case news
1 June 2017
In March 2017, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), based at Middlesex University, litigated a series of cases in partnership with Memorial Human Rights…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
4 May 2017
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია The Georgian Government has settled claims by ten applicants whose protest against cuts to war veterans’ benefits was violently dispersed by the police. …
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
13 April 2017
Memorial to those who died during the Beslan siege Over 400 victims of the 2004 Beslan School Siege and their families found justice today as…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
12 April 2017
On 22 March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights decided to refer a series of cases to the Russian Government on the Foreign Agents Act,…
From 7 to 10 March 2017, nine lawyers from across Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine joined the EHRAC team for our annual Legal Skills Development Programme…
Politically motivated cases
Russia Ukraine
Case news
30 March 2017
Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. Today the Mejlis (representative body of Crimean Tatars) has submitted an application to the European Court of Human…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
28 March 2017
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია On 8 March 2017, EHRAC lawyers Prof. Philip Leach and Joanne Sawyer represented former Georgian Prime Minister Ivane Merabishvili in an oral…
Repression of civil society
EHRAC News
16 March 2017
The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), based at Middlesex University’s School of Law, has been awarded a grant by the Avaaz Foundation, an advocacy organisation which galvanises…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
15 March 2017
On 15 March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights requested observations from the Russian Government on a case regarding a political journalist and activist, who…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Repression of civil society
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
14 March 2017
Today the European Court of Human Rights found that Russian State agents were responsible for the abduction, beating of and threats to kill four men, who…
Russia
Case news
7 March 2017
Today the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Russian Government violated the right to respect for family life of the wife and children of…
Advocacy and implementation
Ukraine
Case news
19 January 2017
Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. Today the European Court of Human Rights found that the dismissal of 18 Ukrainian judges, ranging from Supreme Court…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
17 January 2017
Today the European Court of Human Rights found that Russia unlawfully arrested and detained Sultan Barakhoyev, in a “complete negation of fundamentally important guarantees” ten years ago…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia Russia
Case news
20 December 2016
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია Today the European Court of Human Rights found that Russia’s collective expulsion of Georgians in 2006 violated the European Convention on Human…
Andrew Drzemczewski, Visiting Professor at Middlesex University School of Law, will be giving his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 17 January at 6pm. Compliance with, and the need…
On 15 and 17 November 2016, EHRAC held a pair of webinars on using specific mechanisms of the European Court of Human Rights, drawing on the Court’s…
Violence against women and girls
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
10 November 2016
On 10 November 2016, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaints brought by a young woman from Dagestan, regarding Russia’s failure to investigate claims…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
4 November 2016
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია On 19 October 2016, the European Court of Human Rights requested the Georgian Government’s response to a case alleging police hate crime…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Nagorno-Karabakh Strasbourg
Case news
1 November 2016
On 1 November 2016 EHRAC made a submission to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, concerning the implementation of the European Court of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia Ukraine
Case news
27 October 2016
Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. On 26 October 2016, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentences of Stanislav Klikh and Mykola…
Repression of civil society
Georgia
Case news
21 October 2016
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია On 8 September 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (European Court) requested that the Georgian Government provide its observations on a…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
23 September 2016
On 23 September 2016, the European Court of Human Rights requested that the Russian Government submit its observations on the case of Rashid Ozdoyev and Tamerlan…
Repression of civil society
Georgia
Case news
14 September 2016
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია On 14 September 2016, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the case concerning the arrest of seven peaceful protesters who were holding…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Russia Ukraine
Case news
18 August 2016
Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. On 26 May 2016, two Ukrainian citizens, Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klikh, were sentenced to 22.5 and 20…
Capacity Building
Other
EHRAC News
29 July 2016
EHRAC is offering a bursary to cover the costs for one human rights defender from Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia or Ukraine to attend the ‘39th Training Course for…
Capacity Building Violence against women and girls
EHRAC News
7 July 2016
On 21-23 June 2016, EHRAC gathered 15 women’s rights lawyers and activists in Warsaw for our biennial regional seminar: Combatting violence against women through litigation. Participants…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
24 June 2016
On 24 June 2016, the European Court of Human Rights requested that the Azerbaijani Government submit its observations in the case of Khalid Bagirov’s disbarment from…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
14 June 2016
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია On 14 June 2016, the European Court of Human Rights found that former Georgian Prime Minister Ivane Merabishvili’s pre-trial detention was used to…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
13 June 2016
On 13 June 2016, the European Court of Human Rights requested that the Russian Government submit its observations in a case concerning the arrest and trial of…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
2 June 2016
Today the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Azerbaijani authorities’ failure to provide adequate medical treatment to prominent human rights defenders, Leyla and Arif Yunus,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Repression of civil society
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
12 May 2016
On 12 May 2016, the European Court of Human Rights found that Russian authorities did not take prompt and effective measures to protect Zarema Gaysanova’s right…
European Court considers whether Georgia restricted access to courts for financial gain through fees
Georgia
Case news
25 April 2016
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია On 25 April 2016, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the case of Kerdikoshvili v Georgia to the Government for its observations.…
Capacity Building
Georgia
EHRAC News
13 April 2016
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია The decision in our first domestic violence case before the UN Committee charged with monitoring women’s rights has been nominated for a Gender Justice Uncovered…
Capacity Building
UK
Events
13 April 2016
To book, please visit the Law Society website. Date: 4 May 2016 Location: Law Society of England and Wales, 113 Chancery Lane, WC2A 1PL Overview: The European…
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
17 March 2016
The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that the arrest and detention of prominent human rights defender Rasul Jafarov was unjustified and was aimed at punishing…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Case news
8 March 2016
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია “I hope that the Georgian Government will fulfil the decision and implement the recommendations in good faith. For the first time…
From 29 February to 3 March, eight lawyers from across Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine joined the EHRAC team for our annual Legal Skills Development Programme…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
23 February 2016
On 7 January 2016, the European Court of Human Rights communicated a group of cases relating to the alleged abductions and disappearances of four men, aged between…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
16 February 2016
For me, the most important thing has been to prove that my nephew was not a criminal, but the victim of crime, committed by the…
Repression of civil society
Russia
EHRAC News
29 January 2016
Nadezhda Kutepova, founder of the NGO Planet of Hopes, was recently forced to flee her home to live in Paris, where she now has asylum…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Armenia Azerbaijan
Case news
27 January 2016
The Governments of Azerbaijan and Hungary have been asked by the European Court of Human Rights to respond formally to a case brought by the relatives of…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
8 January 2016
The Russian Government has been asked by the European Court of Human Rights to respond to allegations that it violated the right to freedom of expression of Memorial…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
5 January 2016
Photo credit: Alexander Baroshin In a ground-breaking and strongly worded judgment, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Russian authorities had failed in their…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
17 December 2015
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია On 17 December 2015, the European Court of Human Rights struck out two cases from Georgia, following unilateral declarations from the Government…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
17 December 2015
On 16 November, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the case concerning the killing of Natalia Estemirova, a prominent human rights activist and campaigner, to…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
UK
Events
17 December 2015
“Death is taken out of life.” These were the words of Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedavaricius, speaking about enforced disappearances at a screening of his film, Barzakh,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Armenia Azerbaijan
Case news
8 December 2015
On 10 November 2015, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the case of Mamikon Khojoyan, a 77-year-old Armenian citizen who inadvertently crossed the border into…
Russia
Case news
4 December 2015
In a ground-breaking Grand Chamber judgment issued today, the European Court of Human Rights has found that Russian legislation on surveillance of mobile telephones fails to…
Capacity Building Violence against women and girls
UK
EHRAC News
27 November 2015
On 17 and 18 November 2015, EHRAC held two webinars entitled “Addressing Violence against Women – Views and Recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Repression of civil society
Georgia
Case news
25 November 2015
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია The Georgian Government has made unilateral declarations in two cases relating to the police’s alleged use of excessive force while dispersing protesters.…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
12 November 2015
On 14 October 2015, the European Court of Human Rights communicated a case relating to Human Rights Club’s (HRC) inability to acquire State registration to the Azerbaijani…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Russia Ukraine
Case news
11 November 2015
Ви також можете прочитати цю статтю українською. Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in April 2014, and the ensuing armed conflict in the Donbas region, EHRAC…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus UK
Events
9 November 2015
To mark International Human Rights Day 2015, and the 21st anniversary of the beginning of the first Chechen war, EHRAC and Pushkin House present a screening of Barzakh,…
Environment
Russia
Case news
29 October 2015
Today, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a judgment in a case concerning the quashing, by way of supervisory review, of a binding and enforceable judgment…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
28 October 2015
იხილეთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია The case of Giorgi Ugulava, the former Mayor of Tbilisi, was communicated by the European Court of Human Rights to the Georgian…
Capacity Building Repression of civil society
UK
Events
28 October 2015
Last week at the Law Society, prominent human rights lawyers and activists Olga Sadovskaya, Stephania Kulayeva and Khalid Bagirov spoke candidly about the difficulties faced by…
Capacity Building
UK
EHRAC News
23 October 2015
Last night, Professor Philip Leach was named Human Rights Lawyer of the Year at the Law Society’s annual Excellence Awards. This is the first year that…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia
Case news
16 October 2015
In its third judgment on the Katyr-Yurt bombing, the European Court of Human Rights issued its strongest statement yet that the Russian Government must take measures…
Capacity Building
Azerbaijan
Case news
9 October 2015
Intigam Aliyev is a courageous and dedicated human rights defender. He fought for human rights in the face of challenges and danger. He is an inspiration for…
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society
Armenia Georgia
Case news
8 October 2015
The use of force in the dispersal of the June 2015 Electric Yerevan protests concerning the cost of energy in Armenia proved once again that…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus
Case news
22 September 2015
Today the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in a case concerning the abduction and disappearance of Abdurakhman Abdurakhmanov in Dagestan in June 2010. The…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus
Case news
22 September 2015
On 22 September 2015, the European Court of Human Rights communicated a group of cases relating to the alleged abduction of ten men by State agents in…
In May 2015, EHRAC organised our annual Legal Skills Development Programme (LSDP) in Strasbourg to which we invited nine lawyers from Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine. We…
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society
Georgia
Case news
12 August 2015
The Georgian Government has recently settled two cases at the European Court of Human Rights, acknowledging that it had violated Articles 3, 5, 6 and…
Capacity Building
Armenia
EHRAC News
1 August 2015
On 30 July, in direct response to the “Electric Yerevan” protests and current legal developments in Armenia, EHRAC Legal Consultant Vahe Grigoryan led a one…
Capacity Building Repression of civil society
UK
Events
27 July 2015
Challenges in litigating human rights violations in the former Soviet Union 27 October 2015 at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL EHRAC is at…
On 17 June 2015, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the case of Mkrtchyan v Armenia, which concerns the death of a ten-year-old child, Derenik…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia
Case news
2 July 2015
Memorial to those who died during the Beslan siege Hundreds of victims of the Beslan school siege came a step closer to justice today with…
The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), based at Middlesex University in London, is inviting applications for the position of Lawyer within our legal team. Job Purpose:…
Capacity Building
Strasbourg
EHRAC News
18 June 2015
This year, EHRAC’s Legal Skills Development Programme (LSDP) was held in Strasbourg, home of the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). We invited…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Nagorno-Karabakh
Case news
16 June 2015
With the European Games underway in Baku, the European Court has issued a judgment of exceptional significance for over a million people, both Armenian and…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Armenia Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh
Case news
12 June 2015
On Tuesday 16 June, the grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will deliver a judgment in Sargsyan v Azerbaijan, a case of exceptional significance…
Capacity Building Repression of civil society
UK
EHRAC News
8 June 2015
Three students from Middlesex University have undertaken a legal research project for the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre on cases concerning the unlawful arrest and detention…
Capacity Building
Armenia Georgia Russia UK Ukraine
EHRAC News
8 May 2015
On 29 April 2015, EHRAC hosted its first online specialist seminar, or ‘webinar’, on ‘Protecting Women’s Human Rights’. The webinar screen as our participants saw…
Capacity Building Conflict and occupation abuses
Georgia South Ossetia
Events
6 May 2015
On 5 May 2015 the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) held a conference in the Georgian National Library, Tbilisi, on “Russia’s responsibility during the August War and at present: GYLA’s…
In January 2014 the revisions of Rule 47 of the Rules of Court entered into force. These revisions are designed to assist in the efficient…
Caroline Njoya is just one of Middlesex University School of Law’s master’s students to have gained valuable career experience at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre…
Capacity Building
UK
Events
29 April 2015
Panel discussion hosted by the Human Rights Lawyers Association At a time when we are beginning to witness an erosion of the Convention standards in many…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case news
24 April 2015
On 22 April 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in the case of Kagirov v Russia (No. 36367). The Court held that the failure…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
23 April 2015
On 22 April 2015, Azerbaijani human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev was sentenced by the Baku Serious Crimes Court to seven and a half years in…
On 31 March and 1 April, members of the EHRAC team travelled to Kyiv in order to conduct a legal training session. The event, hosted…
Following the high-level conference by the Council of Europe states in Brussels yesterday, six NGOs have submitted a joint response to the draft Declaration on ‘The Implementation of the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
27 March 2015
On 26 March 2015 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in the case of Zhebrailova and Others v. Russia (No. 40166/07), finding that the abduction…
Tomorrow, on 26 March, Council of Europe states meet in Brussels for a high-level conference entitled, ‘Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), our…
Capacity Building Conflict and occupation abuses
Other Ukraine
EHRAC News
2 March 2015
The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), based at Middlesex University, has joined forces with the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale…
Strasbourg
EHRAC News
2 March 2015
On 26 February 2015, EHRAC, along with 9 other prominent human rights NGOs, signed a joint statement in response to the draft Brussels Declaration on the ‘Implementation of the European Convention on…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Strasbourg
EHRAC News
25 February 2015
On 19 February, EHRAC and Memorial Human Rights Centre sent a submission to the Committee of Ministers (CoM) of the Council of Europe with regards to the…
Advocacy and implementation
Ukraine
EHRAC News
24 February 2015
On 18 February, EHRAC’s Director Prof. Philip Leach attended the launch of the Council of Europe’s project in Kiev, ‘Strengthening the System of Judicial Accountability…
Repression of civil society
North Caucasus Russia
EHRAC News
6 February 2015
Today our colleague and lawyer, 32-year old Murad Magomedov, was severely beaten by unknown attackers in Makhachkala. This brutal assault occurred not far from the…
Violence against women and girls
Georgia
Case news
3 February 2015
On 23 January 2015 the Georgian Young Lawyers Association, with the cooperation of the European Human Right Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) and the Partnership for Human…
Capacity Building
North Caucasus Russia
EHRAC News
3 February 2015
Since the human rights centre Memorial and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) began collaborating in 2000, the ECtHR has issued 87 positive rulings on…
Advocacy and implementation
Ukraine
Case news
2 February 2015
Mr. Volkov in front of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Today, Oleksandr Volkov has been reinstated as a Judge in the Ukrainian Supreme Court, six…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia
Case news
16 January 2015
EHRAC is advising on two cases against Georgia at the European Court of Human Rights concerning criminal proceedings brought against Ivane Merabishvili, the former Georgian…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
16 January 2015
On 15 January, the European Court ruled in Albakova v Russia (No. 69842/10), finding that the killing of Batyr Albakov, and the subsequent lack of an…
Advocacy and implementation
Ukraine
Case news
6 January 2015
A decisive vote taken by the Ukrainian parliament on 25 December 2014 marks a significant step towards the reinstatement of Oleksandr Volkov to his position…
Along with Matrix Chambers and the Law Society, Middlesex University School of Law is organising a short course on various aspects of practising human rights…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
26 November 2014
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to give priority to the case of Intigam Aliyev, a prominent human rights lawyer, following his…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
Case news
21 November 2014
On 13 November 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Islam-Ittihad Association and others v Azerbaijan (No. 5548/05), finding that the dissolution by the State…
Capacity Building
Former Soviet Union
EHRAC News
15 November 2014
EHRAC’s Legal Officer, Kate Levine, gave a fascinating talk at the BEARR Trust Annual Conference yesterday. She discussed the legal issues arising from Russia’s 2012 law on “foreign agents”,…
The far-reaching effects of EHRAC’s landmark case Kiladze v Georgia and then Burdiashvili v Georgia (communicated on 23 September 2013) have extended all the way to Georgia’s national legislation.…
Repression of civil society
Russia
EHRAC News
9 October 2014
On 9 October 2014, EHRAC, along with over 100 other prominent NGOs, signed an open letter with the aim of urging President Vladimir Putin to halt the…
Georgia
Case news
22 September 2014
A journalist’s challenge to Russia’s sweeping surveillance powers over mobile phone communications will take a step forward this month in a rare public hearing of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
18 September 2014
Today the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the detention and disappearance of Apti Zaynalov in 2009 breached three separate aspects of the right…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Georgia
Case news
17 September 2014
On 17 September 2014, EHRAC and the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association submitted a new case against Georgia to the European Court of Human Rights concerning…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
EHRAC News
5 September 2014
EHRAC and other human rights NGOs submitted a letter to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe requesting enhanced supervision of the implementation of…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
1 September 2014
On the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Beslan School siege, in which at least 1,128 people, including 800 children, were taken hostage by Chechen…
Repression of civil society
Azerbaijan
EHRAC News
29 August 2014
EHRAC and other leading human rights NGOs sent an urgent appeal to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), asking the CoE to…
EU Special Adviser, Thomas Hammarberg has published his report on the progress and challenges facing civil society in Georgia. Mr Hammarberg emphasised the immense progress…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case news
4 July 2014
European Court: Violence against Chechens breached European Convention on Human Rights – failure to investigate episode of ‘mob violence’ – strangulation with rope by police…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Armenia
Case news
1 July 2014
On 2 July 2014, almost 10 years since the Tunyan family were evicted from their home, their case is to be re-examined in Armenia following…
Advocacy and implementation
Ukraine
EHRAC News
3 April 2014
“Each party tried to get the judges into their own pocket” Translated by Victor Kuijpens for the Daily Trouw It’s not every day that a judge…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
27 February 2014
Today the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case Dzhabrailov and Others v Russia that the arrest and abduction of 13 men in Chechnya…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Nagorno-Karabakh
EHRAC News
7 February 2014
You can now watch the webcast of the Sargsyan v Azerbaijan hearing at the European Court of Human rights, at which Prof. Philip Leach and Vahe Grigoryan of EHRAC represented…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Nagorno-Karabakh
Case news
4 February 2014
Tomorrow, the case of Sargsyan v Azerbaijan will be heard by the Grand Chamber at the European Court of Human Rights. The case is brought by the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
30 January 2014
Today the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case Z. and Khatuyeva v Russia that the arrest and abduction of Mr Zhamalayla Yanayev in December 2004…
Capacity Building
Strasbourg
EHRAC News
27 January 2014
EHRAC’s Director, Prof. Philip Leach, has responded to an open-call from the Council of Europe for proposals and views on the longer-term reform of the…
President of the Law Society expresses concern over non-enforcement of judgment in Volkov v. Ukraine
Advocacy and implementation
Ukraine
EHRAC News
22 January 2014
The President of the Law Society expressed concern to the Committee of Ministers regarding the non-enforcement by Ukraine of EHRAC’s case, Oleksandr Volkov v Ukraine at the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
9 January 2014
Today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Pitsayeva and Others v Russia, concerning 36 men who were ‘disappeared’ after being taken…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
19 December 2013
The European Court of Human Rights ruled today in the case Dobriyeva and Others v Russia and found that the investigation into the disappearance of the applicants’…
Advocacy and implementation
Strasbourg Ukraine
Case news EHRAC News
5 December 2013
Yesterday, the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe adopted a further decision in the case of Oleksandr Volkov v Ukraine, in which they urge Ukraine to “take…
Advocacy and implementation Repression of civil society
North Caucasus
EHRAC News
2 December 2013
The Law Society Gazette has published an excellent article on the recent conference in Belfast on ‘Challenging the Oppression of Lawyers in Times of Conflict’ – at…
23 November 2013 – The award winning film Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer is being screened at Pushkin House, Holborn on Tuesday 10th December in aid…
Capacity Building
UK
EHRAC News
22 November 2013
Our photography exhibition will go on display on Monday 25th November to Friday 29th November at Middlesex University. It received great coverage in the local news – such…
Advocacy and implementation Capacity Building
Strasbourg UK
EHRAC News
21 November 2013
Prof. Philip Leach, Director of EHRAC and Alice Donald, Senior Research Fellow at Middlesex University have written an article for the UK Human Rights Blog…
Advocacy and implementation
Strasbourg Ukraine
EHRAC News
19 November 2013
At the Committee of Ministers’ meeting today in Strasbourg, EHRAC Senior Lawyer Jessica Gavron will highlight our case Volkov v Ukraine – in which the European Court…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
31 October 2013
The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that Russian State agents unlawfully detained Bulat Chilayev and Aslan Israilov in Chechnya in 2006 and after no news…
Read a report from EHRAC’s visit to Moscow in September 2013.
Russia
Case news
21 October 2013
At a public hearing today at the European Court of Human Rights, the final judgment in the case Janowiec & Others v Russia was heard by relatives…
You can watch footage from our recent panel discussion held at Pushkin House on 10 October 2013. Oleg Orlov of Memorial in Russia, Luke Harding of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
10 October 2013
In two separate judgments against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights today, justice was achieved for three families whose relatives were ‘disappeared’ at…
To celebrate EHRAC’s 10th Anniversary, we held a panel discussion on 10 October on Foreign agents and political activity – opposing the crackdown on Russian NGOs. The…
Advocacy and implementation
Strasbourg Ukraine
EHRAC News
9 October 2013
In a recent speech, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Dean Spielmann, commented on the implementation of our ‘noteworthy’ case Volkov v Ukraine. In…
Advocacy and implementation
Strasbourg Ukraine
EHRAC News
26 September 2013
In EHRAC’s case Volkov v Ukraine, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has called on the Ukrainian government to reinstate Volkov as judge of the…
Capacity Building Repression of civil society
Russia
Events
24 September 2013
On Thursday 10 October at Pushkin House we will hold a panel discussion on: Foreign agents and political activity – opposing the crackdown on Russian NGOs.…
We have published a new organisational strategy for 2013 – 2023 to mark our tenth anniversary. It is available in English or Russian.
You can now view the EHRAC photo exhibition online, featuring images from our work over the past ten years. The exhibition was on display at Pushkin House…
Capacity Building
UK
EHRAC News
17 September 2013
Sir Nicolas Bratza and Lord Frank Judd send commemorative messages on the occasion of EHRAC’s 10th anniversary. Sir Nicolas Bratza “I feel very privileged to have been asked by…
Strasbourg
EHRAC News
12 September 2013
EHRAC was signatory to a joint NGO submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, commenting on the impact of Protocol 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights. The…
Capacity Building
Events
9 September 2013
To mark our 10 year anniversary we are also hosting a special photography exhibition featuring photos from cases over the past decade. It will be held…
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms came into force 60 years ago today. Today it is rightly recognised as…
Advocacy and implementation
Ukraine
EHRAC News
29 August 2013
The Dutch Foundation ‘Judges for Judges’ has written to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe about the implementation of Volkov v Ukraine (21722/11). Specifically, they…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
EHRAC News
29 July 2013
Memorial Human Rights Centre, EHRAC’s partner organisation, submitted observations to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning general measures in the Khashiyev group of…
Capacity Building
Russia
EHRAC News
26 July 2013
At a House of Lords debate this week, Lord Judd, a long-time supporter of EHRAC’s work, raised issues of widespread human rights violations taking place…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Russia
Case news
22 July 2013
On 12 July 2013, EHRAC and the Russian NGO Memorial launched a new case at the European Court of Human Rights concerning the banning of…
A new submission in the Foreign Agent case was sent to the European Court reflecting the deterioration in the applicant NGOs’ situations since February 2013 as a direct result of…
Russia
EHRAC News
11 July 2013
EHRAC’s partner in Russia, Memorial Human Rights Centre, has written an article on the application of the European Convention on Human Rights by the Supreme…
“Protocol 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights must not result in a weakening of human rights protection”. EHRAC and other leading human rights…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
20 June 2013
Today, in the case of Turluyeva v Russia (No. 63638/09), the European Court of Human Rights held the Russian State responsible for the disappearance and presumed death…
Capacity Building
UK
EHRAC News
29 May 2013
Prof. Philip Leach, Director of EHRAC, gave his inaugural lecture at Middlesex University, titled “What is Justice? Reflections of a practitioner at the European Court of…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
30 April 2013
EHRAC is deeply concerned about a notice received today by our partner organisation, Memorial Human Rights Centre, from the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office. The notice officially…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case news
18 April 2013
Today, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia to have violated the European Convention on Human Rights in two cases: Askhabova v Russia (54765/09) and Ageyevy v…
Strasbourg
EHRAC News
15 April 2013
Along with organisations such as Amnesty International and the AIRE Centre, EHRAC was signatory to a joint NGO submission commenting on the Draft Protocol 15 to…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case news
7 February 2013
Today, an application is being lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of eleven leading Russian human rights NGOs to contest the…
Conflict and security force abuses Discrimination
Chechnya Russia
EHRAC News
7 October 2023
CW: enforced disappearance; torture On 12 September, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in Lapunov v Russia, a case concerning the…
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