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Hijacking Human Rights to Enable Punishment by Association: Valiullina, Džibuti and Outlawing Minority Schooling in Latvia - Strasbourg Observers

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HOME » HIJACKING HUMAN RIGHTS TO ENABLE PUNISHMENT BY ASSOCIATION: VALIULLINA, DŽIBUTI AND OUTLAWING MINORITY SCHOOLING IN LATVIA November 23, 2023 by Sarah Ganty and Dimitry V. Kochenov[i] In Valiullina and others v. Latvia and Džibuti and others v. Latvia, the Fifth Section of the European Court of Human Rights unanimously approved of further restrictions on Russian-language education in Latvia, thereby depriving a huge proportion of the population of the Republic of Latvia of education in their mother tongue. Constitutional identity was found to trump Convention rights and a very superficial assessment of proportionality was conducted. Supporting a bilingual school system in a bilingual society which pretends hard not to be one was proclaimed to amount to segregation, which needs to be dismantled at all costs. The Court agreed with the Latvian government that the existence of minority rights was the problem and not the violation of said minority rights. Valiullina and Džibuti thus f

Hijacking Human Rights to Enable Punishment by Association: Valiullina, Džibuti and Outlawing Minority Schooling in Latvia - Strasbourg Observers Home » Hijacking Human Rights to Enable Punishment by Association: Valiullina, Džibuti and Outlawing Minority Schooling in Latvia Hijacking Human Rights to Enable Punishment by Association: Valiullina, Džibuti and Outlawing Minority Schooling in Latvia November 23, 2023 by Sarah Ganty and Dimitry V. Kochenov [i] In Valiullina and others v. Latvia and Džibuti and others v. Latvia , the Fifth Section of the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ap

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