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The Council of Europe's secretary general, Alain Berset, has called for further efforts to implement judgments from the European Court of Human Rights. The annual report for ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed applications from a group of pro-independence Catalan parliamentarians who alleged that Spain violated their rights to freedom ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled against Russia in a case brought by two media organisations and 178 individuals over the criminalisation of dissent ...

The European Court of Human Rights is to set up an ethics council to advise the president of the court on matters of judicial ethics. The president ...

Irish judge Síofra O'Leary, the first woman and the first Irish person to serve as president of the European Court of Human Rights, has received the UCD ...

The publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday was wrongly forced to pay excessive costs after losing privacy and defamation proceedings in the UK, ...

Dr Síofra O'Leary, who recently completed her term as president of the European Court of Human Rights, has been awarded the honorary degree of LLD by the ...

A criminal ban on buying sex does not violate the rights of sex workers, the European Convention on Human Rights has ruled. The Strasbourg court yesterday handed ...

There is no right to assisted dying under European human rights law, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled by a 6-1 majority. Dániel Karsai, a ...

Russia violated the rights of a schoolteacher who was sacked in 2014 over social media posts including photos of her kissing other women, the European Court of ...

Italy can lawfully reclaim a 2,000-year-old Greek statue from the Getty Museum in California, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Victorious Youth has been at ...

The European Court of Human Rights is “backsliding” by surreptitiously reversing its principles established to protect asylum seekers, according to a new study. It is a decade ...

Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh has been elected to serve as the next Irish judge on the European Court of Human Rights. The Court of Appeal judge ...

The European Court of Human Rights has published a factsheet on past and pending cases concerning climate change. The document has been published following the Strasbourg court's ...

Switzerland is failing to meet its human rights obligations by not taking sufficient action to tackle climate change, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled ...