Category: News

The EU and Council of Europe programme “Reinforcing Judicial Expertise on Freedom of Expression and the Media in South-East Europe” (JUFREX) organised two events in…

In Savva Terentyev v. Russia the ECtHR has applied a very high level of free speech-protection for aggressively insulting and hostile comments about police officers,…

Together with prof. Eva Lievens (Ghent University) and prof. Peggy Valcke (KULeuven) we edited a new and extended edition with the most important regulatory instruments…

After a wonderful summer vacation Legal Human Academy has restarted its activities with mediation cases and coaching. In international mediation cases we developed a well-functioning on-line mediation-format (using…

Legal Human Academy, together with Greenpeace International, the Human Rights Centre of the University of Gent, and the Open Society Justice Initiative, has been supporting a request to refer the…

On 30 May 2018 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) has communicated its judgment of 8 February 2018 in the case of San Miguel…

The European Audiovisual Observatory made the new version available of the e-book “Freedom of Expression, the Media and Journalists. Case law of the European Court of…

In the week of 12-15 March 2018 we have been lecturing at the University of Luxembourg, on invitation by prof. Mark Cole and prof. Katarina Pantazatou.…

On 7 March 2018 the Committee of Ministers has adopted the Recommendation on the roles and responsibilities of internet intermediaries. A Committee of experts on internet intermediaries…

In its Spring 2018 issue Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights published: Whisteblowing for sustainable democracy, by Inger Hoedt-Rasmussen and Dirk Voorhoof. The need for protection of whistleblowing is argued…