European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC)
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Challenging human rights abuses in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine. Home to the Enforced Disappearance Legal Database.
Based @MDXlaw, London.
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http://www.ehrac.org.uk 19-01-2012 15:48:03
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I’m hearing disturbing news that prominent human rights defender and chairman of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre in #Azerbaijan was detained by the police today Az Mission Geneva
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International Law in Armed Conflict 3-6 September 2024
Human Rights Centre and Essex Armed Conflict and Crisis Hub present an in person practical development course, taught by leading practitioners in the field of International Human Rights and Armed Conflict.
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Prof Shazia Choudhry has been named as the UK's candidate for the United Nations’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2025 to 2028.
Congratulations, Prof. Shazia Choudhry 👏
ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-2…
In June '23, the ECtHR delivered its judgment in a case concerning the presumed suicide of a young woman. A.L. had reported her partner’s violent behaviour 16 times in 4 yrs, voicing fears for her own life.
Read more: ehrac.org.uk/en_gb/european…
#DomesticViolence #humanrights
Today, on the Int'l Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross #HumanRights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, we’re sharing our Enforced Disappearance Legal Database:
edld.ehrac.org.uk
#HumanRights #derechoshumanos #droitshumains #правачеловек
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With our support & Forensic Architecture our Ukrainian partners at Center for Spatial Technologies Center for Spatial Technologies released new additions to their spatial archive, gathering digital & visual evidence & testimonies from the Mariupol Theatre bombing 2 years ago.
theater.spatialtech.info/en#media
We condemn today's decision by #Kyrgyzstan 's 🇰🇬parliament to adopt a restrictive 'foreign representatives' bill that stands at odds with the government's #HumanRights commitments and poses grave threat to NGO and independent media work in the country: 24.kg/english/288998…
Azerbaijani independent broadcaster Toplumtv was raided on March 6, and several members of its staff were arrested, said #RightLivelihood Laureate Khadija Ismayilova, the TV's chief editor.
Toplum TV's founder and a video editor remain in pre-trial detention.