60 years of the European Convention - New website

The Council of Europe has launched a new website dedicated to the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The website offers not only regularly updated content but also a very good synthesis of the most important Landmark Judgements delivered by the Court since its creation in 1959.

This very useful tool will remain available and operational, in French and in English, after the end of 2010 - the anniversary year.

For more information click in the following link:

ECHR Anniversary site

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New OHCHR's report on DRC human rights violations

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the "DRC: Mapping human rights violations 1993-2003" Report which contains the descriptions of 617 alleged violent incidents occcurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between March 1993 and June 2003.

In the own words of the UNHCHR, Ms. Pillay, "[t]his report is the result of interviews with several hundred interlocutors, both Congolese and foreign, who witnessed atrocities in the country: it substantiates their accounts and reflects their aspiration for justice", adding that the report "is intended as a first step towards the sometimes painful but nonetheless essential process of truth-telling after violent conflict."

If you want to know more about it, you will find the entire report at the following link:

DRC: Mapping human rights violations 1993-2003"

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