This article reviews the development of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) relating to the rights of Travelling Peoples. In its early case law on this topic, the Court's approach, in accordance with the principle of the rule of law, was to ensure equality of...

The cases on Chechnya recently decided by the European Court of Human Rights force us to re-evaluate the relationship between human rights law and humanitarian law. Since the International Court of Justice held that humanitarian law is lex specialis to human rights law in 1996 - if not since the...

Fundamental rights and the fight against terrorism-UN sanctions regime-freezing of financial assets-relationship between EU and UN-implementation of Security Council resolutions in EU law-competence of ECJ to review legal acts of the Community-right to be heard-right to effective judicial...

Since the 1990s, the number of national human rights institutions (NHRIs or national institutions ) has been growing in Europe. The aim of these institutions is to help implement international human rights at the national level and narrow the gap between government and civil society. After...

The justification of the child's right to know her origins and the fundamental interests underlying it have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. This article goes one step further and assesses that right's enforcement in practice together with its guiding principles. It starts by...

Data protection is one of the most discussed topics today. European citizens are affected by data processing in every part of their daily life. But, in case of misuse of their personal data, are they aware of the rights that protect them? European data protection rules can be found in the...