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Latest press releases (6)

  • 12.04.2024

    ECCHR and Palestinian human rights organizations Sue to Stop German Weapons Exports to Israel

    Today, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), supported by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza and the human rights organization Al Haq in Ramallah, filed a lawsuit seeking to suspend export licenses issued by the German government for arms shipments to Israel. The suit is on behalf of five Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip whose family members have been killed during Israeli rocket attacks.

  • 26.03.2024

    Europe’s involvement in war crimes in Yemen

    A renewed call for justice and accountability

    Nine years ago, the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition launched their aerial campaign in Yemen. European actors played a central role in the conflict and subsequent humanitarian crisis that Yemenis continue to endure. Together with our partners, we renew our call to the international community to hold European actors accountable for the involvement during the conflict.

  • 08.03.2024

    Roșia Montană World Heritage Site finally freed from the clutches of Canadian investors

    Civil Society organizations question usefulness of Investor-state dispute settlement mechanism

    Roșia Montană World Heritage Site is finally freed from the clutches of the Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources after decades of legal battle. Civil Society organizations question the usefulness of the Investor-state dispute settlement mechanism and call for the publication of the ruling of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

  • 05.03.2024

    EDF’s windpark in Mexico

    Indigenous community seeks access to justice in important hearing before Paris Appeals Court

    The civil lawsuit filed by Mexican indigenous community Unión Hidalgo against Electricité de France (EDF) in 2020 finally enters its next stage before the Paris Court of Appeals. Their case is the first to claim the violation of indigenous and collective rights under French Duty of Vigilance Law.

  • 04.03.2024

    First threatened, then hanged

    Syrian women’s rights activist found dead in region controlled by pro-Turkish militias.

    In Syria, those who stand up for democracy, and for women’s rights in particular, continue to lose their lives. On the morning of 27 February, the Syrian human rights activist Heba Haj Aref was found dead in the town of Bza’a in the eastern rural governorate of Aleppo. She had been hanged.

  • 28.02.2024

    After 8 years, prosecution calls for charges to be dropped in IUVENTA proceedings

    In a surprising turn of events, the prosecution in the proceedings against the four crew members of the Iuventa crew and others has requested the charges to be dropped. Today's hearing marked the commencement of the final statements, where the prosecution unexpectedly acknowledged the lack of arguments to support the charges against the crew after 7 years of ongoing proceedings. The judge’s decision is still pending.

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To counter injustice with legal interventions – this is the aim and daily work of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.

ECCHR is an independent, non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to enforcing civil and human rights worldwide. It was founded in 2007 by Wolfgang Kaleck and other international human rights lawyers to protect and enforce the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as other human rights declarations and national constitutions, through legal means.

Together with those affected and partners worldwide, ECCHR uses legal means to end impunity for those responsible for torture, war crimes, sexual and gender-based violence, corporate exploitation and fortressed borders.

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