On 22 and 23 March 20201 Forum for Human Rights in cooperation with the International Commission of Jurists and the Judicial Academy of the Czech Republic has organized a judicial training for Czech judges and judicial assistants on Selected discourses of asylum and migration law from the international and national perspective. The seminar was attended…
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ICJ and Forum for Human Rights celebrate landmark European Committee decision upholding procedural rights for children
All children regardless of their age must have access to procedural rights when they are accused of criminal acts, the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights decided in a landmark case (No. 148/2017) brought by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Forum for Human Rights. The ICJ and Forum lodged a complaint challenging the failure of…
Success in the case concerning personal assistance
Legal capacity has no impact on the right to receive allowance for personal assistance. This is the main message of the judgment of the Regional Court in Banská Bystrica in the matter of not granting allowance for personal assistance to a client with a mental disability, whom we had assisted with the preparation of the lawsuit.…
Training on the rights of children suspected or accused of violating the law
FORUM together with its partner the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is holding an online training seminar on the rights of children who are suspected or accused of violating the law within the European Union. The training (16-18 February 2021) focuses on the right of a child in conflict with the law to an individual…
FORUM filed an inclusive education case against Slovakia
FORUM supports inclusive education of children with disabilities. That is why we filed an individual complaint with the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in a case concerning a young boy with intellectual disability who was prevented from continuing his education on a high school. The case is directed against Slovakia.…
Council of Europe body finds Czech Republic responsible for violating rights of children with disabilities and Romani children through institutionalisation
The European Committee of Social Rights has today found the Czech Republic responsible for large-scale and discriminatory institutionalisation of children with disabilities and Romani children in early childhood care institutions, criticising the failure of the country to adopt and implement an appropriate deinstitutionalisation strategy. In a decision released today, the European Committee found violations of…