The European Commission (EC) contracted a consortium led by SOFRECO pursuant to Request for Offer N° 2009/226296, to conduct an evaluation and formulate recommendations on EIDHR support to Human Rights Defenders. The evaluation was carried out from January to March 2010, and covered the 11...

The present report is an evaluation of the projects aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ADP), financed under the European Initiative on Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR). The evaluation, undertaken between November 2006 and February 2007, covers a portfolio of 28 projects, some dating...

Human rights protection mechanisms are based on the state's commitment to respect, protect and/or promote a series of rights. When one speaks about human rights violations' punishments, the first image that comes to mind is the execution of human rights court rulings. However, there are other...

The 26 June 1987, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the “European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment”, which entered eventually into force two years later. Being closely intertwined with the European Convention...

A fundamental principle of criminal law is that individuals may only be punished for offenses which they have personally committed; any punishment must be personal and individual. To that end, international law proscribes as collective punishment any sanction imposed on a population without regard...