The influence of Ordo Iuris, a radical – sometimes described as fundamentalist – organisation in Poland, should alarm all of Europe, say rights campaigners. Ordo Iuris leaders, meanwhile, claim they are a civic educational team of...
Tag - European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has backed Czechia’s compulsory vaccination campaign in a landmark ruling that could have wide implications in the fight against...
Dozens of Armenians remain in Azerbaijani captivity following the recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, with Baku refusing to recognise them as prisoners of war. The...
Almost three years after a European Court ruled that Romania must recognise a same-sex couple under EU freedom of movement legislation, its government is yet to...
In December 2009, plainclothes police raided the offices of the Inclusive Foundation in Tbilisi, an organisation that campaigns for LGBT rights in Georgia. Two members...
Victory at ECHR for anti-corruption hero places Romania’s constitutional court in unwanted spotlight
Just days after being named as Emerging Europe’s Public Figure of the Year, Romanian Laura Codruţa Kövesi has won a landmark victory at the European Court of Human...
Jarji Akimidze and Davit Dvali, the founders of Georgia’s Rustavi 2 TV channel, have rejected the offer of Kibar Khalvashi, the channel’s new owner, to...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has upheld the decision of three Georgian courts in the case of broadcaster Rustavi 2, ruling that the television station must...
“Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan continues to be under threat,” said Dunja Mijatović (pictured above), the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that a Moldovan activist’s conviction for using sculptures of genitals to protest against corruption was “manifestly...
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court has ruled that foreign, same-sex spouses must be granted residence permits by the country’s migration department, despite same-sex...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced on October 9 that it had rejected appeals by Lithuania and Romania against an earlier ruling that they were complicit...
