Responsibility of States to Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims
The Bar Human Rights Committee launched a high-level Briefing Paper on the Responsibility of States under International Law to the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, co-authored by Aarif Abraham, a member of Garden Court North’s International Team, together with other leading human rights barristers.
Barbarism Is Beneath Us (Part 2)
In Part 1 Aarif Abraham introduced the challenges faced by the European Court of Human Rights (Court) with growing authoritarianism, nationalism and intolerance across its 47 Member States. Those broad challenges were linked to three direct threats to the Court. In Part 2 of 5, below, he considers the first of these threats relating to the right of individual petition
Barbarism Is Beneath Us (Part 1)
Aarif Abraham discusses, in a five-part series, the challenges faced by the European Court of Human Rights from some of its 47 Member States who are undermining its role as a court of justice with sanctions for implementing the human rights of some 831 million people. He assesses whether these challenges put into question the rights of an individual under the European Convention of Human Rights including to an effective remedy. Part 1 introduces the contours of the debate.