13 May 2025
Via its DHRTTDs Directory, the Geneva Human Rights Platform provides a comprehensive list and description of such key tools and databases. But how to navigate them? Which tool should be used for what, and by whom? This interview helps us understand better the specificities of the current highlight of the directory: ECHR Knowledge Sharing Platform
The ECHR-KS platform is unique in that it provides in-depth and regularly updated analytical and contextualized information on case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
This platform can be easily navigated via search by Articles of the European Convention of Human Rights, transversal themes, and key themes. The platform is also linked to all the relevant international standards and selected academic commentaries, and importantly, it is updated every week by the Registry of the Court.
The platform complements other sources such as HUDOC which is the database of the European Court of Human Rights containing legal texts (judgments, decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions, resolutions etc).
A national judge can use the ECHR-KS to review recent case law of the Court under Article 8 (Right to respect for private and family life) in the context of for example data protection.
By exploring how the Court interprets this right in a particular context, the user can assess whether the national legislation or domestic court decisions are aligned with Convention standards.
The platform is designed for a broad range of users, including judges, legal professionals and practitioners, researchers and academics as well as the public in general.
Its intuitive design and multilingual versions make it particularly useful for empowering users with practical knowledge to advance justice and human rights protection at national level.
The ECHR-KS is now available not only in English and French, but also in Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian. With this platform, the case law of the Court is accessible and available for more than 300 million people in their native languages. Other language versions of the platform are envisaged. Moreover, the platform regularly expands its content by introducing new transversal and key themes.
Geneva Academy
Participants from six countries across the Middle East and North Africa region joined our customized training on the Geneva-based United Nations human rights mechanisms
ECHR
Via its DHRTTDs Directory, the Geneva Human Rights Platform provides a comprehensive list and description of such key tools and databases. But how to navigate them? Which tool should be used for what, and by whom? This interview helps us understand better the specificities of the current highlight of the directory: ECHR Knowledge Sharing Platform
UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
This training course will explore the origin and evolution of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and its functioning in Geneva and will focus on the nature of implementation of the UPR recommendations at the national level.
Participants in this training course will be introduced to the major international and regional instruments for the promotion of human rights, as well as international environmental law and its implementation and enforcement mechanisms.
UNAMID
This project will develop guidance to inform security, human rights and environmental debates on the linkages between environmental rights and conflict, and how their better management can serve as a tool in conflict prevention, resilience and early warning.
Adobe
This initiative wishes to contribute to better and more coordinated implementation, reporting and follow-up of international human rights recommendations through a global study on digital human rights tracking tools and databases.
Geneva Academy