Ideas
Ideas
Essays on human rights in Romania and Europe: the cases that changed the law, the rights you can use today, and the questions that will shape the next decade.
Cases that changed Europe
He was eighteen and had no one to speak for him
The case of Valentin Câmpeanu changed who can go to the European Court of Human Rights. It still asks Romania a hard question.
8 October 2026, 5 min readYour rights in RomaniaWhen the state looks away: domestic violence from Opuz to Bălșan
Two judgments turned domestic violence from a private family matter into a human rights violation. One of them is about Romania.
8 October 2026, 6 min readRights and the futureThe grandmothers who took their government to court over the climate
On 9 April 2024 a group of Swiss women aged sixty-four and over won the first climate case at the European Court of Human Rights.
8 October 2026, 5 min readIn preparation
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