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Pavlov v. Russia: Welcoming the Court’s proactive shift in its handling of environmental complaints, including their evidentiary challenges*
By Nele Schuldt [This post first appeared on Strasbourg Observers] Introduction On October 11th 2022, the third section of the Strasbourg Court delivered an important judgment in the case of Pavlov and Others v Russia (Application no. 31612/09), concerning air pollution, which will hopefully prove to have great ramifications for pending and future environmental and climate cases. In short, theContinue reading “Pavlov v. Russia: Welcoming the Court’s proactive shift in its handling of environmental complaints, including their evidentiary challenges*”
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Applying an Evidentiary Lens to the Conflict in Ethiopia: Issues Arising from Investigative Mandates
By Edward Kahuthia Murimi & Ruwadzano Makumbe Introduction The war in Tigray has unleashed untold suffering for the people in the region. According to the reports of the Joint Investigative Team (JIT) of OHCHR and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (November 2021) and the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE or ‘theContinue reading “Applying an Evidentiary Lens to the Conflict in Ethiopia: Issues Arising from Investigative Mandates”
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The escape of the state:
No shift in the burden of the proof and no anti-Roma discrimination by the police in P.H. v SlovakiaBy Marie-Bénédicte Dembour Thanks to Emma Várnagy whose insightful post on the P.H. case published on the Strasbourg Observers blog inspired me to write my own take on the case, and whose comments on my text helped improve it. Would you jump from a 7.7 metres high window? Of course not! Nobody would, although, according toContinue reading “The escape of the state:
No shift in the burden of the proof and no anti-Roma discrimination by the police in P.H. v Slovakia”
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