HFII - Initiative for legal certainty in the Western Balkans
Regional online round table "Videoconference in court proceedings: human rights standards”
National judiciaries faced with extraordinary challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The courts are required to comply with restriction measures while ensuring the right to a fair trial. As a result, many of them resorted to the increased use of online tools to conduct hearings. Are such...
The first regional online round table on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights and the rule of law
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created extraordinary challenges for the authorities of all Member States of the Council of Europe. They need to respond to this crisis effectively, whilst ensuring that the measures they take do not undermine the Europe’s founding values of human...
Improving harmonisation of judicial practice to advance justice reforms and strengthen rule of law in Western Balkans
The harmonisation of judicial practice in the Western Balkans in line with the case law of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgements, constitutes a key priority for the justice actors and local stakeholders in the region, in their...
Representatives of the High Judicial Council of Albania and the Supreme Court of North Macedonia visit the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights
Harmonisation of the national practice with the standards imposed by the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) is a fundamental precondition for ensuring legal certainty and the overall protection of human rights in the member states. To this effect, 12 representatives from the High Judicial...
Supporting justice institutions in Albania and North Macedonia towards a consistent judicial practice in line with the European Convention on Human Rights
Harmonisation of judicial practice remains an emerging issue in the Western Balkan region. A particular focus of the EU and Council of Europe joint action “Initiative for legal certainty in the Western Balkans” is to deal with the inconsistency of the judicial practice and incoherent application...
Strengthening the protection of the right to the peaceful enjoyment of property in the Western Balkans
The issue of protection of the right to the peaceful enjoyment of property, guaranteed under Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) is among the crucial for the region of the Western Balkans. The very nature of some problems, such as restitution of...
Shared responsibility in implementing the European Convention on Human Rights: addressing challenges with (new) judicial tools in focus of the Regional conference in Sarajevo
The two-day Regional conference on ensuring the principle of subsidiarity of the European Court of Human Rights through empowering the judiciaries to apply the Court’s standards held in Sarajevo on 24 and 25 October 2019 gathered over 40 participants across the region. “Today we are launching a...
Key publications under the project
Monitoring pre-trial detention and material detention conditions: Guide for NPMs
