Visit of Ukrainian Minister of Justice German Galushchenko to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights

November 4 marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the European Convention on Human Rights, a document that became the basis for

Meloni Leads Drive To Curb Illegal Migration by Demanding Reforms of ECHR

Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has told EU leaders to prepare for a first political debate on reforming the European Convention on

Prohibition of Torture: Standards of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on Policing

Dmytro Yagunov: Informal prison hierarchies in the 21 century: subculture, trends and social control (The 2025 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology)

In this study, we raise the issues of the origins of Soviet criminal and prison subculture, the corresponding informal prisoner hierarchies, and the

Tinatin Uplisashvili: The Shadow Сode – How Informal Prison Pierarchy Undermines Human Dignity Across Post-Soviet Prisons

In this expert blog, PRI’s Tinatin Uplisashvili explores the persistence of informal prison hierarchies across post-Soviet penitentiary systems, structures that continue to shape

Administrative Practice of Abduction and Transfer of Children: the Case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (extracts)

Evidence relating to the relocation of children 1509.  On 12 June 2014 a bus with 24 children (15 orphans or children without parental care

Russian Policy and Practices of Torture : the Case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (extracts)

74.  From late August 2022 Ukrainian forces led counter‑offensive operations in the regions of Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson which resulted in their retaking