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Authoritarian Resistance and Judicial Complicity: Turkey and the European Court of Human Rights

May 22, 2024

This article by Dilek Kurban, scholar of human rights law and visiting researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), discusses authoritarian resistance against international human rights courts as well as judicial complicity (and accommodation of authoritarian resistance). As a case study, it examines the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and […]


Strategies for Justice at the Inter-American System

April 2, 2023

On April 4, we led our eighth Practitioner-Scholars Roundtable, centered around discussions on the Inter-American System on Human Rights’ (IASHRs) role in the  fight against forced disappearance in Latin America. The event will focus on research from Patricia Cruz Marín.


Corporate Violations of International Human Rights

October 17, 2022

On October 31, we led a virtual discussion on possibilities to seek justice when corporations violate rights under international human rights law.


Lisa Sundstrom on Russia, Civil Society, Human Rights and International Law

June 8, 2022

Lisa Sundstrom, the Principal Investigator of ActInCourts Network, spoke with Rights in Russia's Mary Page on the current state of civil society, human rights, and the effect of international law in Russia.


Global Threats to Human Rights Defenders

June 3, 2022

On June 15, we led a virtual discussion on a range of threats to the safety and the work of human rights defenders, particularly those active in cases at international human rights tribunals, and strategies to help protect and support them.


Courtney Hillebrecht on Prospects for ICC Prosecution on Ukraine | The Washington Post

March 23, 2022

Courtney Hillebrecht explains the prospects of ICC prosecution on possible war crimes in Ukraine in the Washington Post Monkey Cage, 


Prosecuting Ecocide: Q&A with Dr. Stavros Pantazopoulos

January 20, 2022

We spoke to Dr. Stavros Pantazopoulos, an expert on the legal aspects of environmental protection during and after armed conflict, on his thoughts after moderating our fifth Scholar-Practitioner Roundtable.


Can we fill the Accountability Gap for Environmental Harm?

January 20, 2022

Our fifth Practitioner-Scholar Roudntable discussed the challenges of defining and prosecuting ecocide and fighting against impunity of environmental crimes in practice.


Does Facebook’s Oversight Board Promote International Human Rights?

October 30, 2021

On October 28th we hosted our fourth ever Practitioner-Scholar Roundtable, where we discussed implications on international human rights around Facebook's Oversight Board.


Dilek Kurban on Kurdish Rights Activism and the Limits of Supranational Justice

October 28, 2021

Read our interview with ActInCourts member Dilek Kurban on her new book, Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict.