The European Union and Vietnam held their annual Human Rights Dialogue in Hanoi on July 21, reaffirming their commitment to ...

The tide has turned against the European Convention on Human Rights - COMMENT: As two backbench Labour MPs break ranks to voice their support for rewriting the Convention – following an even ...

Last month, Palestine Action was proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 after causing £7m of damage to two jet planes at RAF Brize Norton. This means that expressing support for or being a member of ...

Whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been a debate in UK politics for years.

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a lawsuit from three former British MPs, who sought to compel the government ...

Human Rights reports on Gaza, courts to hear challenges from Palestine Action co-founder and Good Law Project in November ...

In upholding domestic restrictions on such speech, the ECtHR equated insult, defamation and ridicule with hate speech that falls outside the protection of Article 10 of the European Convention on ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Polish authorities violated the rights of Ewa Siedlecka, a prominent ...

The Court has issued over 10,000 opinions on a wide range of human rights issues relating to the Convention. In April 2024, it got the attention of the climate change community when it issued a ...

Nevertheless, Ms. Meloni and Ms. Frederiksen’s coalition is determined to push forward, concluding their letter with a call for “a new open debate on the interpretation of the European Convention on ...

The Court found that Russia was responsible for repeated human-rights violations over a period of more than eight years. This included indiscriminate military attacks; summary executions; torture ...

Article 17 and the totalitarian legacy Article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) prohibits the use of Convention rights for the destruction of such rights. The Court has ...