Time for Strasbourg to Open its Doors to Turkey’s Purged Public Servants
A report by the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project (TLSP) provides fresh evidence that the Commission formed in 2017 to examine the mass dismissals of public servants and liquidation of...
View ArticleHuman Rights – The Essential Frame of Reference in the Global Response to...
COVID-19 has created a situation unparalleled in the post-1945 era, as all nations face the same mortal threat simultaneously. The climate emergency and terrorism are, like the pandemic, global in...
View ArticleHuman Rights and COVID-19: Forging Recovery After a Pandemic of Abuses?
We anticipated a year ago that the pandemic, and state responses to it, presented both threats and opportunities in relation to the full panoply of human rights—civil, political, economic, social and...
View ArticleWEBINAR 1: “Human Rights and the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Wednesday, 12 May 2021 | 09:00 – 10.30 BST / 10.00 – 11.30 CEST COVID-19 – and state responses to it – present a threat to human rights unparalleled in the contemporary era. At the same time, human...
View ArticleAdapt or Die?
The year 2022 will be remembered as one of ‘terrible violence and seismic change in Europe’, in the words of the High Level Reflection Group (HLRG) established by the Council of Europe to consider the...
View ArticleThe UK vs the ECtHR
In recent months, the UK government has tabled two Bills before Parliament which would have the consequence – and almost certainly have the intention – of setting the UK on a collision course with the...
View ArticleDefeat in the Supreme Court
On 15 November 2023, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) unanimously declared the government’s policy of removing some asylum seekers to Rwanda to process their claims unlawful. Like the Court of Appeal, it...
View ArticleLegislating fiction
MPs set to debate the Rwanda Bill Members of Parliament in the UK will on 16 and 17 January 2024 debate the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, which ‘gives effect to the judgement of...
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