Discover ECCHR’s extensive expertise in legal human rights work through the Living Open Archive. The archive weaves together diverse stories and multiple voices in the struggle to expose structural injustice and hold state and non-state actors accountable for human rights violations. Explore the links and parallels between our cases and their connection to broader social, political and historical contexts.
Amira Tamim, Paula Zimmermann and Simin Jawabreh look at Germany´s interpretation of its “reason of state” in the context of Israel's ongoing war crimes in Gaza. What are the political, legal and societal ramifications of this, and what kinds of solidarity alliances are necessary to counter its repressive dimensions?
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Since 2018, armed militias have been committing international crimes in Afrin in northern Syria with Turkey’s support. With Syrians for Truth and Justice, we filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office. This dossier provides an overview of the political and military situation in Afrin since 2011, and includes the complaint and other materials.
In this episode ECCHR’s Michael Bader and Sarah Imani, activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro (Berlin Postkolonial) and curator and artist Anguezomo Nzé Mboulou Mba Bikoro discuss the posthumous right to human dignity, the importance of legal restitution, and creating a space for mourning.
This multimedia piece tracks the emergence and evolution of ECCHR over the last 15 years, with an emphasis on the political and legal interventions that have come to define us as an organization.
Lebanese performance and video artist Rabih Mroué speaks with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck about how he treats the impact of violent images in his work. Beginning with his piece PIXELATED REVOLUTION, which uses the moment of the civilian witness capturing violence on their cellphone camera, Mroué lays out a complicated web of connections between the witnessing acts of viewer, victim, and perpetrator.
In their conversation entitled “Beyond Limitations,” artist and activist Tomás Saraceno and human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck discuss possibilities for collaboration between their respective fields.
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has prompted a debate on how to best address international crimes and hold those responsible for them to account. In our dossier, we explore potential options for pursuing this at the national and international level, as well as outline our approaches for strengthening international criminal law.
In this episode, Ethiopian-American author Maaza Mengiste and Italian artist and photographer Laura Fiorio sit down with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck to talk about Italy's colonial history in Ethiopia.
In Challenging Corporate Power, Gearóid Ó Cuinn and Miriam Saage-Maaß, both human rights lawyers, discuss how to use human rights litigation to challenge corporate power.
Eyal Weizman, founding director of research agency Forensic Architecture and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck speak about the new joint initiative between Forensic Architecture and ECCHR: Investigative Commons.
Still in operation today, Guantánamo remains a global symbol of injustice and calls into question the viability of the global human rights system. In this dossier, we are reflecting on the legacy of the notorious detention camp and US counter-terrorism politcy two decades after 9/11.
Bénédicte Savoy, Art historian and professor at the Technical University of Berlin discusses with ECCHR Secretary General Wolfgang Kaleck about the restitution of stolen colonial art and her criticism of the debate surrounding the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Writer, activist and ECCHR Advisory Board member Priya Basil sits down with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck to talk about legacies of colonial and postcolonial injustice and German memory culture.
This episode is about the debut novel The Blood of the Dawn — La Sangre de la Aurora by Claudia Salazar Jiménez. Salazar Jiménez and Karina Theurer, director of ECCHR’s Institute for Legal Intervention, discuss the enduring consequences of gender discrimination, using fiction as a tool for visibility and for sensitizing us to the suffering of others. Please be advised, this episode contains themes of sexual and gender-based violence that some listeners may find distressing.
In this episode, curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy and Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR general secretary, talk about the challenges of visual representation. They discuss the visuals of violence and the viewers’ responsibility and interrogate different ways of dealing with photography produced in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Sealy and Kaleck thereby try to answer the question: How do we deploy these images… and to what purpose?
In this episode, we will look at several of Forensic Architecture’s investigations and working methodologies in Gaza, Germany, and Cameroon with architect and former deputy director of Forensic Architecture, Christina Varvia, and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck.
Guatemalan visual artist Ixmucané Aguilar joins Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR general secretary, to discuss her documentary photography practice exploring the enduring effects of German colonialism in Namibia and the genocide against the Herero and Nama. The conversation addresses the fragility of photography as a medium, the risk the photographer runs of imposing their values upon their subject, the importance of collective evidence and recognizing the many nuances of truth.
