Pro-life citizens’ initiative “ONE OF US” wins moral victory: European Commission admits “inconsistencies and misrepresentations”
There has been a long period of silence around “ONE OF US”, with more than 1,7 million signatures the most successful European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) so far, which is asking…
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How Human Rights Are Becoming ‘Post and Trans-Human Rights’
Gregor Puppinck, PhD, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice explains how human rights are becoming “trans-humans rights” under the influence of individualism, skepticism and biotechnologies. Human rights…
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ECHR: The applicant requesting a right to die was already dead
The Court ruled that it cannot be abusively instrumentalized for strategic litigation. Andreea Popescu and Grégor Puppinck On 30 September 2014, the Grand Chamber of the European Court…
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The European Citizens’ Initiative ONE OF US challenges the European institutions before the General Court of the European Union
Grégor Puppinck, PhD, President of the Citizens’ Committee. On July 25th 2014, the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ONE OF US lodged an application before the General Court of the European Union…
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Study on Assisted Suicide in The Case Law of The European Court of Human Rights.
The European Centre for Law and Justice recently published a detailed study on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) case law on assisted suicide in the International Journal of Human Rights. Here…
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Spanish Bill On Abortion : Balancing The Mother And Child’s Interests
Between Thursday, 3rd July and Friday, 4th July, 150 delegates from 16 different European and South American countries along with Spanish representatives met in the Spanish Parliament’s buildings for a…
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Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” for the respect of human life: the European Commission must now respect democracy
Grégor Puppinck, Representative of the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” The European Commission (EU) must decide before May 28 on how it intends to take action concerning the request of…
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Presentation of the European Initiative “One of Us” at the European Parliament
Text of the introductory presentation of the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” at the European Parliament, Brussels, 10 April 2014 By Grégor Puppinck, representative of the ECI “Today I…
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Instead of Disaster a Triumph: The European Parliament’s Hearing on the European Citizen’s Initiative “One of Us”
Unfortunately, due to other obligations, I did not have the possibility to be present at the hearing. What I write here is what I have seen on the complete webstream…
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BREAKING NEWS: “One of Us” Citizen’s Committee sends Protest Letter to European Parliament! Will the Hearing take place??
This letter was sent a few minutes ago by Gregor Puppinck, in his function of Representative of the Organizers’ Committee of the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” to MEP…
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One of Us Initiative – The EU politicians want to talk, not to listen, to citizens
Following the successful Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us”, which has collected nearly 1.9 million signatures and is the most successful of all citizens’ initiatives so far, the European Parliament is…
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The Decline of the “Right” to Abortion in Europe
By Grégor Puppinck, PhD, The “right to abortion” is on the decline in Europe and in the United States which explains the will of the French government to reaffirm it….
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The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights to rule on a right to assisted suicide
Grégor Puppinck, PhD. Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ –Strasbourg) Strasbourg, 8 October 2013. At its last meeting (7 October 2013), the Grand Chamber panel…
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Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe: no consensus on abortion
Grégor Puppinck, PhD, Director of the ECLJ. Strasbourg, July 17th 2013. On July 3rd 2013, during its 1175th meeting, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe officially admitted that…
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ECHR: Respect for the Church’s freedom justifies the non-recognition by the State of a priests’ union
First comments on the Grand Chamber (GC) decision Sindicatul “Păstorul cel Bun” v. Romania, No. 2330/09 of July 9, 2013. Grégor Puppinck, Director of the ECLJ This July 9, 2013,…
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“Manifs pour tous”: denunciation of French police brutality to the Council of Human Rights at the UnN
intervention in the 24th Meeting of the 23rd Regular Session of Human Rights Council, denouncing police brutality in France against the demonstrators opposed to same-sex marriage and adoption. VIDEO OF…
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Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight
Here is a post published on the Blog “Constitution Project” of the University College Cork (UCC), an inter-disciplinary research group looking at issues surrounding constitutional law, history, governance and politics. It may also be…
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Abortion on demand violates European Human Rights Convention, expert says
Grégor Puppinck, a frequent author on this blog, has published a legal analysis on the website of the renowned European Journal of International Law, in which he concludes that laws…
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Christian employees in the UK: a second class category
For the European Court of Human Rights, it is proportionate to dismiss an employee because of his religious and conscientious objection to homosexuality. Grégor Puppinck, PhD, Director of the European Centre…
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Homosexual adoption before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
The case of X and others v. Austria Grégor Puppinck[1] Strasbourg, 12 September 2012. On 3rd October 2012, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will hear…
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Euthanasia: The European Court Must Rule on Two New Cases
Dr Grégor Puppinck Director of the ECLJ In the coming months, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights will once again have to rule on the…
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European Court of Human Rights: a significant victory for the freedom of the Church
Strasbourg, 15 May 2012 – Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights published a judgment in the important case of Fernandez-Martínez c. Espagne (application no 56030/07), in which it concluded by…
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ECHR: The limitation of MPA techniques to heterosexual couples and the refusal to allow a woman to adopt her same-sex partner’s child are not discriminatory
Grégor Puppinck, Director of the ECLJ Strasbourg, 15 March 2012. In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of GAS et DUBOIS c. France (Requête no 25951/07), the European Court…
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Major victory for life in Europe: Euthanasia must always be prohibited
The ECLJ welcomes the adoption, by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) of a Resolution setting the principle that “Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing…
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Bioethics: Major Victory for Family and State Sovereignty before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.
By Grégor Puppinck, PhD, Director of the ECLJ 3rd November 2011 – Today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has delivered its final judgment in…
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