Content tagged with Women's rights
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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.
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Resource | Training resource | 30 Nov 2020 | By Constantin Cojocariu
EHRAC briefing paper on litigating self-defence in the context of domestic violence
This briefing paper addresses some of the issues arising when litigating cases on behalf of women charged with harming their partners in self-defence.
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UN women’s rights body concludes “satisfactory implementation” of first ever international decision on domestic violence in Georgia
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 the first ever case on domestic violence in the country to be decided by an international body.
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EHRAC and partners urge European Court to examine discrimination inherent in Russia’s handling of sexual violence complaints
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 case in which the applicant was repeatedly and brutally raped by her ex-husband, urging the Court to examine the State's handling of rape complaints and their investigation under the right to non-discrimination (Article 14 of the European Convention of Human Rights) and to adhere to consent-based definitions of rape.
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EHRAC convenes expert roundtable on sexual violence against women in the former Soviet Union
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 issue in our target region.
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‘Honour’, ‘honour’-based violence and ‘honour’ killings
Professor Aisha K. Gill, Professor of Criminology at the University of Roehampton, interrogates the structures and ideologies that underpin 'honour-based violence' as a form of gender-based violence.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Anida Zuko
Kurt v Austria
Austria did not fail in its duty to protect a child who was shot dead by his father while claims were being investigated that he had raped the child’s mother and had made threats to kill her and their children.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Nicola Balmer
Volodina v Russia
Failure to protect from, prevent, deter, censure or investigate serious and prolonged domestic violence amounted to degrading treatment, contributed to a “climate conducive to domestic violence” and was discriminatory on the basis of gender.
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EHRAC pushes for State accountability for failures to protect women from gender based violence
Over the last year, EHRAC and our partners at Georgia have litigated five cases of violence against women from Georgia before the ECtHR and the CEDAW Committee. These cases address a broad spectrum of gender based violence, from honour-based crimes in ethnic minority communities to abuse perpetrated by law enforcement officers.