Content tagged with Friendly Settlements/Unilateral Declarations
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What future for settlements and undertakings in international human rights resolution?
Who assesses whether an undertaking made in friendly settlements or unilateral declarations has been met? What happens when governments do not comply?
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Feb 2018 | By Harriet Bland
Volkov v Ukraine
Oleksandr Volkov was elected to the Supreme Court of Ukraine in 2003. In May 2010, he was dismissed from his post due to an alleged “breach of oath”. In January 2013, the ECtHR found multiple violations of his right to a fair trial and ordered Ukraine to reinstate him immediately as a Supreme Court Judge.
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Dec 2017 | By Giulio Pagano
MM v Russia
The applicant was arrested in January 2005 on charges of murder, to which he confessed following alleged death threats and threats of ill-treatment by police officers. While in pre-trial detention, he was held in overcrowded, insanitary and degrading cells, with less than four metres squared of space.
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Resource | Training resource | 1 Aug 2018
Friendly settlements and unilateral declarations
A series of resources on the relative merits of these means of resolving cases before the European Court, and some of the problems which can arise for applicants whose cases have been settled in such a way.
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Police and prison abuses in Georgia: European Court asked to re-open cases due to failure to investigate
EHRAC and GYLA requested that the European Court of Human Rights re-examine four cases, given the Government’s ongoing failure to investigate.
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Georgian Government admits ill-treating war veterans during sit-in
The Georgian Government has settled claims by ten applicants whose protest against cuts to war veterans’ benefits was violently dispersed by the police.
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Resource | Case Summary | 5 Jul 2016 | By Eleanor Healy-Birt
Jeronovičs v Latvia
This case provides useful guidance on unilateral declarations. Measures proposed in unilateral declarations often did not fully redress violations.
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EHRAC webinars: Mechanisms under the Rules of Court
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 practice and procedure, as well as EHRAC’s own experiences.
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Resource | Article | 14 Jul 2016 | By Tamar Abazadze
Friendly settlements and unilateral declarations at the European Court of Human Rights
Tamar Abazadze examines the Government’s recent body of European Court cases decided by way of friendly settlement or ‘unilateral declaration’.
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Georgian Government admits violations of right to life in two cases
European Court strikes out two cases from Georgia, following unilateral declarations admitting violations of the right to life at the hands of State agents.