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The Right of Self-Defence in Domestic Violence Cases: Stereotypes and Biases in Justice Systems (Using the Example of Russia)
EHRAC Oak Fellow Dariana Gryaznova analyses the gender stereotypes and biases that obstruct women’s access to justice in self-defence cases within a context of domestic violence.
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Human rights lawyers denied access to the Azerbaijani Bar submit case to European Court of Human Rights
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 violated by Azerbaijan when they were arbitrarily denied access to the Azerbaijani Bar.
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EHRAC turns to UN on behalf of families of missing people in Russia’s North Caucasus
EHRAC and the Russian NGO Memorial HRC, after having successfully represented many families of disappeared persons before the European Court of Human Rights, are now also bringing cases to the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.
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Resource | Article | 14 Dec 2020
Bashir Mutsolgov
EHRAC submitted Bashir Mutsolgov’s case to the UN’s Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in 2020.
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Resource | Article | 14 Dec 2020
Rashid Ozdoyev & Tamerlan Tsechoyev
EHRAC submitted the case of Rashid Ozdoyev to the UN’s Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in July 2020, and is also preparing to submit the case of Tamerlan Tsechoyev.
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Resource | Article | 14 Dec 2020
Timur Yandiev
EHRAC submitted Timur Yandiev’s case to the UN’s Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in December 2019.
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Resource | Article | 14 Dec 2020
Adam Medov
EHRAC submitted Adam Medov’s case to the UN’s Working Group on Enforced Disappearances in June 2020.
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Armenian LGBT+ club owner sues for justice at European Court of Human Rights over neo-Nazi arson attack
EHRAC has responded to the Armenian Government’s observations in a case concerning the firebombing of an LGBT+ venue in Yerevan in 2012.
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Resource | Interview | 30 Nov 2020
Litigating self-defence in a domestic violence context: Interview with Mari Davtyan
EHRAC spoke to Russian lawyer Mari Davtyan about her work and recent participation in EHRAC’s virtual expert roundtable on litigating self-defence in a domestic violence context.
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EHRAC convenes first virtual expert roundtable on litigating self-defence in the context of domestic violence
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 and discuss the challenges involved in litigating self-defence in the context of domestic violence.