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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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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.
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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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Resource | Article | 16 Nov 2020 | By Toby Collis
Note on International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) report/roundtable on the state of the independence of the legal profession in Ukraine
The situation of the security and independence of lawyers in Ukraine, and the obstacles to represent clients on human rights claims, presents the sadly not uncommon disjuncture between high standards on paper, and serious concerns in reality.
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Russian authorities unlawfully dispersed protests held in support of Bolotnaya Square accused, European Court rules
The European Court of Human Rights has found, in three separate judgments in October,[i] that Russia violated protestors’ freedom of assembly when police made arrests at public gatherings held in support of defendants accused in the Bolotnaya Square case.
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Russian anti-extremist law gave prosecutors “unfettered power” to sanction Novorossiysk human rights defenders
The European Court of Human Rights found that Russia’s anti-extremist legislation failed to safeguard the free expression of two Novorossiysk human rights defenders who were sanctioned following a public protest in 2009.