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Resource | Training resource | 19 Mar 2021
EHRAC Guide to Litigating Cases of Violence Against Women
This Guide is intended to assist lawyers in making legal arguments at the international level, addresses contexts of domestic and sexual violence, and is aimed at practitioners with some experience of litigating these issues and/or of litigating internationally.
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Remembering Natalia Estemirova
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 now be 63 years old. To this day, those responsible for her murder have neither been found nor prosecuted.
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Resource | Videos | 18 Feb 2021
Profile of a Human Rights Defender: Mari Davtyan
Russian Lawyer Mari Davtyan participated in EHRAC's virtual expert roundtable on self-defence in contexts of domestic violence in September 2020.
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Russian authorities responsible for torture of suspect in police custody and failure to investigate his allegations of ill-treatment, European Court of Human Rights rules
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Russian authorities were responsible for the torture of a man at a police facility in the city of Ryazan in 2005 and failed to properly investigate his subsequent allegations of ill-treatment.
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Russian authorities tortured, forced confessions, and unfairly convicted individuals accused of terrorism offences
The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia in a group of cases concerning ill-treatment, forced confessions, and the unfair convictions of over a dozen individuals suspected of terrorist offences in the North Caucasus region of the country.
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Dagestani domestic violence survivor appeals to European Court of Human Rights over authorities’ failure to protect her
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 to act over her complaints of domestic violence continues to place her life in peril.
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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.