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13 May 2025
Via its DHRTTDs Directory, the Geneva Human Rights Platform provides a comprehensive list and description of such key tools and databases. But how to navigate them? Which tool should be used for what, and by whom? This interview helps us understand better the specificities of the current highlight of the directory: ECHR Knowledge Sharing Platform
The ECHR-KS platform is unique in that it provides in-depth and regularly updated analytical and contextualized information on case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
This platform can be easily navigated via search by Articles of the European Convention of Human Rights, transversal themes, and key themes. The platform is also linked to all the relevant international standards and selected academic commentaries, and importantly, it is updated every week by the Registry of the Court.
The platform complements other sources such as HUDOC which is the database of the European Court of Human Rights containing legal texts (judgments, decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions, resolutions etc).
A national judge can use the ECHR-KS to review recent case law of the Court under Article 8 (Right to respect for private and family life) in the context of for example data protection.
By exploring how the Court interprets this right in a particular context, the user can assess whether the national legislation or domestic court decisions are aligned with Convention standards.
The platform is designed for a broad range of users, including judges, legal professionals and practitioners, researchers and academics as well as the public in general.
Its intuitive design and multilingual versions make it particularly useful for empowering users with practical knowledge to advance justice and human rights protection at national level.
The ECHR-KS is now available not only in English and French, but also in Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian. With this platform, the case law of the Court is accessible and available for more than 300 million people in their native languages. Other language versions of the platform are envisaged. Moreover, the platform regularly expands its content by introducing new transversal and key themes.
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Our new research brief examines the complex relationship between digital technologies and their misuse in surveillance, cyberattacks, and disinformation campaigns.
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ECHR
Via its DHRTTDs Directory, the Geneva Human Rights Platform provides a comprehensive list and description of such key tools and databases. But how to navigate them? Which tool should be used for what, and by whom? This interview helps us understand better the specificities of the current highlight of the directory: ECHR Knowledge Sharing Platform
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Adobe
This training course, specifically designed for staff of city and regional governments, will explore the means and mechanisms through which local and regional governments can interact with and integrate the recommendations of international human rights bodies in their concrete work at the local level.
Training
Participants in this training course will be introduced to the major international and regional instruments for the promotion of human rights, as well as international environmental law and its implementation and enforcement mechanisms.
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Geneva Academy
