Human rights in Eastern Europe: historical and comparative perspectives
How we can use the past to better understand the future? To what extent do shared experiences of totalitarianism matter in conceptualising human rights? The speakers in this panel explore the different ways human rights developed in the region of Eastern Europe and Russia to cast new light on the unprecedented human rights mobilisation in five countries of Eastern Europe – Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and Russia – whose citizens until recently brought more than fifty per cent of all the claims to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
