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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 handed down its judgment in a case brought by 261 men and women of various nationalities who said they habitually and lawfully sell sex in France and argue

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 prominent human rights lawyer in Budapest, Hungary, unsuccessfully argued that the criminalisation of physician-assisted dying (PAD) violated h

Rishi Sunak has said he is prepared to lead the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) if re-elected as prime minister following next month's general election. Mr Sunak, whose Conservative Party is well behind the Labour Party in opinion polls and in danger of slipping into third place

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 since the court first established that asylum seekers are inherently and particularly vulnerable in law.

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 landmark rulings yesterday on three climate cases. The applicants were successful in one of the cases, and unsuccessful i

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 in a landmark case. The Strasbourg court today handed down judgments in three landmark cases, which represented the first climate

Recent UK government legislation relating to asylum and migration introduced as a part of their plan to ‘stop the boats’ has been described as “alarming”, “dehumanising” and incompatible with the country’s domestic constitutional norms and international lega

A judgment of the European Court of Human Rights this month found that the Slovak justice system had taken too long to enforce an order for contact between a mother and her son and had breached their rights in terms of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The mother who brought the

The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill is fundamentally incompatible with the UK’s human rights obligations, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned. Following scrutiny of the bill to assess its human rights implications, the committee has published a report highli

Plans for automatic lifetime anonymity to anyone under 18 involved in criminal incidents have come under fire. The provisions in the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill would also give victims and witnesses anonymity.

Ireland will take the UK to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over a controversial law ending criminal and civil proceedings related to killings during the Troubles, the Irish government has confirmed. Victims and survivors of the Troubles had urged the Irish government to take the rare ste

Six young people from Portugal have presented a landmark case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), arguing that countries are breaching their human rights by failing to do enough to protect them from climate change.

The UK violated the privacy rights of two people whose communications were intercepted and accessed in the UK, despite them both being non-UK nationals living outside of UK borders, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. US national Joshua Wieder and Italian national Claudio Guarnieri, both r

A legal challenge brought by more than 250 sex workers against France's ban on the purchase of sex is to be heard by the European Court of Human Rights. The court decided by a majority that the applications brought by 261 men and women who say they are "habitually engaged in prostitution, in a lawfu

Russian protest band Pussy Riot suffered degrading treatment at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics when band members were whipped and pepper-sprayed by Cossack security forces, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Chamber judgment in the case of Verzilov and Others v. Rus