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This section contains a collection of journal and press articles related to human rights—some were written by members of EHRAC's legal team or concern EHRAC's cases while others are specific to Russia or the European Court of Human Rights. Clicking on the subject headings on the right-hand side will lead to thematic pages with a short summary of each article and a link to the entire text.

Recently posted articles:

ECtHR extends application of Convention beyond Council of Europe borders by Shanta Bhavnani. This article discusses the ECtHR's judgment on the UK's activities in Iraq which represents a significant development in the recognition of the extra-territorial application of the ECHR. 

European Court and 'minor' cases
By Philip Leach, Vera Baird, Grace Cullen, Simon Gallant, Hilary Kitchin, Francesca Klug, Gerald Shamash and Stephen Hockman. This article was published in The Times (Thursday September 15, 2011) in the section Letters to the Editor.                                                                              Letter to Times Newspaper

Reforming human rights in Europe
Letter to The Guardian newspaper (Sunday August 28, 2011) featuring views and opinions from Professor Philip Leach, Professor Francesca Klug, Dr Hywel Francis MP and others.

From Judgment to Justice: Implementing International and Regional Human Rights Decisions
By David C. Baluarte and Christian M. De Vos. This report by the Open Society Justice Initiative reviews the implementation of judgments across the world's four human rights systems. Information provided by EHRAC appears in the Europe section.

Can the European Court’s Pilot Judgment Procedure Help Resolve Systemic Human Rights Violations? Burdov and the Failure to Implement Domestic Court Decisions in Russia
By Philip Leach, Helen Hardman and Svetlana Stephenson.  This article was published in Human Rights Law Review (2010) 10(2): 346-359 and can be read (subject to access rights) here.

Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) report on Chechnya fact-finding mission (15-19 February 2010)
Following the PHRG Mission to Chechnya from 15 to 19 February, this report sets out the findings of the PHRG delegates, Lord Frank Judd, Labour Peer and former Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Special Envoy on Chechnya 1999-2003, and Jo Swinson MP, Liberal Democrat and former Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, on the current human rights situation in Chechnya under the Presidency of Ramzan Kadyrov, as well as their recommendations for action by the international community.
PHRG Chechnya mission report

Quelles sont les réparations adéquates dans les affaires de ‘disparitions’? Leçons issues des affaires sur la Tchétchénie
By Prof. Philip Leach (in French). This article was first published in E. Lambert Abdelgawad & K Martin-Chenut (eds), Réparer les violations graves et massives des droits de l’homme : La Cour InterAméricaine, pionnière et modèle ? Collection de L’UMR De Droit Comparé de Paris (Université de Paris1/CNRS UMR 8103), volume 20, Société de Législation Comparée, Paris, 2010
Reparation disparitions affaires tchetchenes

The ones that lost: Russian cases rejected at the European Court
By Grigory Dikov.  This article was first published in Russian on www.polit.ru.  The English version was produced by www.opendemocracy.net/russia and is posted here with the kind permission of Open Democracy and the author.
The ones that lost_Russian cases rejected at the ECtHR Gregory Dikov.pdf

Opinion: on reform of the European Court of Human Rights
This opinion, by Prof. Philip Leach, was first published by Thomson Reuters (Legal) Limited in the European Human Rights Law Review [2009] Issue 6.
Opinion: on reform of the European Court of Human Rights

 


 
 
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