Karolína Babická
@kbabicka.bsky.social
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@icjurists.bsky
.social's Senior Legal Adviser, in
#Brussels
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Karolína Babická
3 days ago
On Day 2, Karolína Babická
@icjurists.bsky.social
, Nuala Mole
@airecentre.bsky.social
and Santiago A. Canton
@icjurists.bsky.social
explored mechanisms to litigate immigration detention of children - the European Committee of Social Rights, the CJEU, UN Treaty Bodies & special procedures
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4 days ago
Experts from
@echr.coe.int
,
@icjurists.bsky.social
,
@gcrefugees.bsky.social
,
@hfhrpl.bsky.social
,
@airecentre.bsky.social
& Czech Government Office share procedural & strategic know-how on litigating children’s rights in (alternatives to) immigration detention cases 💡Valuable takeaways for lawyers
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At today’s workshop, Santiago A. Canton,
@icjurists.bsky.social
General & former Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, explores the Commission’s jurisprudence on migration and asylum. A comparative approach supporting lawyers fighting child detention🌎🌍
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ICJ
17 days ago
@icj-eca.bsky.social
📣 Join our webinar on procedural rights of
#migrant
&
#refugee
#children
in
#legal
proceedings, where we'll explore intl &
#EU
frameworks ensuring children’s effective participation. ✍️Get registered:
forms.office.com/e/PkHbpeEhag
#ChildsRights
#VoiceOfTheChild
#RightToBeHeard
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Karolína Babická
about 1 month ago
Day 2 starts in Brussels with Frankie McClean from
@theecre.bsky.social
sharing insights on children’s access to legal assistance & guardianship when subject to immigration detention.
#ChildVOICE
#EndChildDetention
@icjurists.bsky.social
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3 months ago
🔊Live
@icjurists.bsky.social
webinar with Hind Riad, lawyer from Progress Lawyers in the E.B. et al. v. Belgium case before the UN CRC Committee, who provides practical tips for litigation: how to lodge an individual complaint against the detention of a migrant child?
#EndChildDetention
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Karolína Babická
3 months ago
🔊Live webinar with Mikiko Otani,
@icjurists.bsky.social
Commissioner & former Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, who is sharing insights on the Committee’s approach to rights of children in migration context with a wide range of professionals!
#EndChildDetention
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Karolína Babická
ICJ
4 months ago
Yesterday marked the first day of our workshop on Litigation before the UN Treaty Bodies and the European Committee of Social Rights, bringing together inspiring voices and meaningful discussions. Here’s a glimpse of the energy and engagement in the room! 📸💭
#UNCRC
#ChildRights
@icj-eca.bsky.social
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„The UN CRC and its General Comments should be more known among lawyers and judges and other practitioners.“ Thank you to lawyers sharing their past litigation to the UN
#CRC
against the Czech Republic, Belgium and Spain, and for discussing litigation strategies to UN Treaty bodies.
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We are discussing today with
#EU
lawyers the use of the lesser known international mechanisms – the UN
#CRC
and the
@coe.int
European Committee on Social Rights – to protect
#children
from
#detention
@icj-eca.bsky.social
@icjurists.bsky.social
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Karolína Babická
ICJ
5 months ago
✨🔊 Highlight from our
#webinar
on litigation to the
#CJEU
, where we discussed litigation strategies to end detention of
#MigrantChildren
. 🎥 The full recording's live on our
#YouTube
channel at
youtu.be/E6VIjAa8yvw
. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the tools for protecting migrant children!
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Karolína Babická
5 months ago
Missed the
@icjurists.bsky.social
webinar on litigation before the CJEU? Watch the full recording now! The webinar looks at litigation strategies to protect migrant children from detention including preliminary rulings and infringement procedures 🎥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6VI...
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Karolína Babická
5 months ago
👩⚖️👨⚖️Another
@icjurists.bsky.social
workshop brought EU judges together to discuss justice for children - calling for stronger safeguards, regular sentence reviews, proper individual assessments & mandatory training. Read more:
www.icj.org/eu-judges-di...
#JuvenileJustice
#ACCESSproject
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Karolína Babická
5 months ago
Live
@icjurists.bsky.social
webinar: Gruša Matevžič from
@hungarianhelsinki.bsky.social
explores how infringement proceedings can support strategic litigation by sharing examples from Hungary on pushbacks, access to asylum and attacks on civil society, plus practical guidance for action
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Karolína Babická
ICJ
5 months ago
"The regulations will help ensure physical accessibility of the courts, ensure that the procedures prescribed, also put in place the aspirations, the requirements and accommodation of people with different types of disabilities," - Wilson Macharia, Legal Adviser at
@icjurists.bsky.social
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Karolína Babická
ICJ
5 months ago
In a joint statement,
@icjurists.bsky.social
,
@fidh-official.bsky.social
, and
@amnesty.org
call for a transparent process by the
@coe.int
's Committee of Ministers in developing the draft Statute for the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against
#Ukraine
.
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Karolína Babická
5 months ago
On this second day, lawyers, judges, social workers and experts discuss national challenges, available child-friendly procedures and best practices in Austria, the Czech Republic, Malta, the Netherlands and Slovakia
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reposted by
Karolína Babická
ICJ
5 months ago
📣 Friendly reminder: Public participation is still open for the upcoming webinar on litigation to the CJEU, hosted by
@icj-eca.bsky.social
🖋️ Registration will be closed after 14 May. Don't miss out! — register now to receive the link! 👉
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
#ChildrensRights
#ChildsRights
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Karolína Babická
5 months ago
How can we ensure the voices of children are genuinely heard?
@icjurists.bsky.social
Commissioner and former judge Martine Comte raises: “Children can express themselves in many ways, and it's crucial to talk to them and to explain things to them, even when they are very young”
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Still a long way to improve the right to effective
#participation
of
#children
in proceedings across the
#EU
. At
@icjurists.bsky.social
workshop in Brussels today, discussing w/ justice actors the role of a
#representative
of a child, the
#RightToBeHeard
in proceedings, and systemic
#inequalities
.
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Karolína Babická
5 months ago
⚖️👧🧑 On 22 April,
@icjurists.bsky.social
and partners launched a series of online workshops for lawyers, judges, prosecutors & law enforcement, social workers & probation officers on ensuring access to justice for children in criminal proceedings, under the
#ACCESSproject
.
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Karolína Babická
European Partnership for Democracy
6 months ago
#Policy💬
⚖️ The next
@ec.europa.eu
's
#RuleOfLaw
Report will be a key test of the new Commission’s ability to address the challenges to democratic institutions brought by the 2024 events. Explore the checklist for an effective report, made by a group of 32 expert organisations. 🧵
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reposted by
Karolína Babická
7 months ago
How can litigation before the CJEU protect migrant children from detention? The
@icjurists.bsky.social
workshop in Luxembourg brought together national lawyers & EU experts to understand and discuss preliminary ruling and infringement procedures Read more:
www.icj.org/eu-enhancing...
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Karolína Babická
ICJ
7 months ago
🎙️At the opening,
@icjurists.bsky.social
's Vice President Radmila D. emphasized the vital role
#womenjudges
play in strengthening
#justice
systems & promoting
#equality
. She commended the gathering as a significant opportunity to discuss the important issue of gender representation in the judiciary.
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“The poverty in Europe today has a face of a woman, and of children” - extremely interesting overview by
@deschuttero.bsky.social
on how systemic discrimination does not allow families for generations to leave the poverty cycle at the
@coe.int
conference.
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Aoife Nolan
7 months ago
1/ One of the sessions today is on Combating
#Childpoverty
& Promoting
#socialexclusion
. These are huge issues in Europe & ones that the
@coe.int
as a whole is increasingly focusing on. These
#childrights
challenges have been huge concerns of the European Committee of
#SocialRights
for many years.
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Looking forward to speaking about
@icjurists.bsky.social
collective complaints to the
@ecsr.bsky.social
on behalf of marginalized groups of children at the
@coe.int
conference!
@icj-eca.bsky.social
To follow the session on child poverty this morning register:
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Karolína Babická
7 months ago
⚖️ During this 2nd day of the workshop, experts are focusing on infringement proceedings! How can legal practitioners challenge non-implementation of EU law?
@ec.europa.eu
@theecre.bsky.social
@hungarianhelsinki.bsky.social
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Karolína Babická
7 months ago
From age assessment to transit zones, Stavros Papageorgopoulos, Senior Legal Officer at
@theecre.bsky.social
, is analyzing cases of migrant children: “the
#CJEU
provides strong arguments for lawyers in domestic litigation!”
@icjurists.bsky.social
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This afternoon - Magdalena Ličková on the impact of the
@eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
#preliminaryrulings
on EU Member States national proceedings and laws, with the example of the Torubarov case, where a national legal remedy was created by the
#CJEU
.
@icjurists.bsky.social
#RELEASEproject
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7 months ago
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Karolína Babická
7 months ago
💡Deep dive into preliminary questions before the CJEU! Legal experts are discussing best practices for drafting and presenting cases with CJEU Referendaire Igor Taccani, and Grusa Matzevic from
@hungarianhelsinki.bsky.social
#ForumforHumanRights
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Glad to be in Luxembourg today for the
@icj-eca.bsky.social
workshop on strategically litigating immigration
#detention
of
#children
- Igor Taccani
@eucourtofjustice.bsky.social
explaining the preliminary ruling procedure
@icjurists.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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Karolína Babická
ICJ
7 months ago
Yesterday, the ICJ delivered a statement on barriers to political participation for persons with disabilities during the CRPD Committee’s Day of General Discussion.
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Mikiko Otani
@icjurists.bsky.social
Commissioner talks about the focus on special protection for
#children
in the international legal framework, and the recognition of children as
#RightsHolders
.
#ACCESS
project
7 months ago
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Today we are starting the Roundtable on
#AccessToJustice
for children in criminal proceedings with
#AmbassadorsOfChange
from six EU Member States
#ACCESSproject
www.icj.org/wp-content/u...
@icjurists.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Karolína Babická
ICJ
8 months ago
📢ICJ & 60+ CSOs urge the EU to step up & fill the global aid gap left by the U.S. aid freeze & the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule. Millions of lives are at stake. To the full appeal👉🔗
icj.org/wp-content/u...
#EUAid
#GlobalAid
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#Vacancy
Administrative Assistant - Join our international team in
#Brussels
@icjurists.bsky.social
! Fluency in French and English required
#Apply
now - applications assessed on a rolling basis!
www.icj.org/wp-content/u...
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8 months ago
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Steve Peers
8 months ago
Latest attempt by Italian govt to send asylum seekers to Albania fails -
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
Unlike the author I do not assume that the Italian govt will *always* fail though - there might be an attempt to change EU law, for instance
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Meloni's Albania deportation experiment has failed
Last Friday (31 January), Italian courts ordered that remaining 43 people taken to Albania were to be returned to Italy. It’s time for Georgia Meloni’s government to face reality — this unlawful and, ...
https://euobserver.com/migration/ar6aec9598
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Tineke Strik
8 months ago
The Greek Ombudsman concludes that 8 (!) senior Greek Coast Guards have engaged in criminal offences during the Pylos shipwreck. This is a very serious conclusion. If human lives are worth anything to Greece and the Commission, urgent action and follow up is needed.
www.politico.eu/article/gree...
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Charge Greek coastguard officers over deadly shipwreck, says ombudsman
Investigation finds “series of serious and reprehensible omissions” in search and rescue duties.
https://www.politico.eu/article/greek-ombudsman-suggests-charges-against-coastguard-for-the-pylos-shipwreck/
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