Joyce De Coninck

🎙️ In our new podcast, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social explains why Frontex has so far evaded accountability for severe human rights violations and discusses legal pathways for change. 🇪🇺🇪🇺

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Geflüchtete und Aktivist:innen: Frontex schickte jahrelang unrechtmäßig Daten an Europol Frontex hat jahrelang personenbezogene Daten gesammelt und unrechtmäßig an Europol weitergeleitet. Tausende Personen, darunter EU-Bürger:innen, die Geflüchtete unterstützen, gerieten durch groß angele...

Many thanks to the teams at @elpais.com @lemonde.fr @wearesolomon.bsky.social & @netzpolitik.org for making this story happen.

@lydiaemman.bsky.social @malichudis.bsky.social @supergalactica.bsky.social Iliana Papangeli & Maxime Vaudano.

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EU’s Frontex Tripped in Its Plan for ‘Intrusive’ Surveillance of Migrants Frontex and the European Commission sidelined their own data protection watchdogs in pursuing a much-criticised expansion of “intrusive” data collection from migrants and refugees to feed into Europol...

Serious questions about evasion of accountability arise, too. FOI documents reveal that senior EU officials had coordinated to misled MEPs about the scale of unlawful Frontex-Europol data transfers during a hearing that followed our earlier investigation: balkaninsight.com/2022/07/07/e...

Frontex revised its protocols after a probe by the EU data protection watchdog in May 2023. To Europol's chagrin, it is no longer passing data 'automatically'. But, crucially, Europol is refusing to confirm it will 'restrict' or 'delete' data - unlawfully shared by Frontex - as required by law.

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with European police In the name of combating migrant smugglers, the European Union's border surveillance agency spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing ...

Our investigation reveals that prominent human rights defenders, who have faced lengthy criminal investigations in Spain and Greece - including @helenamaleno.bsky.social and @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social - have also landed in Frontex & Europol databases.

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We discussed @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social’s (@eui-eu.bsky.social) book and shared some thoughts on its key themes. @lorgas.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social
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Please check it out in case you have ⏱️. Some friends already did & I can't say how grateful I am for your feedback. Academia is a communal project! @alonso-gd.bsky.social @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social @julianascrv.bsky.social @sjorspolm.bsky.social @timozandstra.bsky.social @judithbauder.bsky.social

Human Rights Respectful Trade De Coninck, Joyce; Elsuwege, Peter Van

The article, written with @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, on Human Rights Respectful Trade, is available in the Berkeley Journal of International Law - a contribution to the debate about the role of human rights clauses in EU trade agreements #EU #humanrights #trade
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We woke up to the horrific news of the heaviest attacks in Palestine since the ceasefire. The devastation and human suffering are unimaginable—and only getting worse. Alongside 138 well-known Belgians, we speak up for Palestine.⁠
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#SpeakUpForPalestine

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Ecuador for Violating Rights of Tagaeri-Taromenane People Living in Voluntary Isolation in Yasuní National Park | Amazon Watch “This judgment of the Inter-American Court is the result of many years of struggle and is a guarantee of the rights to territory for peoples in isolation, so that they can live without the threat of o...

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Ecuador for Violating Rights of Tagaeri-Taromenane People Living in Voluntary Isolation
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Also he should wear a suit while doing this

What – if any – are the consequences of the ‘instrumentalization of migration’ for human rights protection under the ECHR? A look at the arguments raised at the ECtHR Grand Chamber hearing on pushback... By Grazyna Baranowska On 12 February 2025, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR held three hearings relating to pushback cases conducted by Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. The cases were relinquished to the G...

What – if any – are the consequences of the ‘instrumentalization of migration’ for human rights protection under the ECHR?

Strasbourg Observers published my thoughts on the arguments raised at Grand Chamber hearing on pushbacks to Belarus.

strasbourgobservers.com/2025/03/04/w...

The Italy/Albania asylum treaty reaches the CJEU: what are the issues? Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Pudelek, via Wikimedia Commons   Is the Italy/Albania dea...

The CJEU will hold its first hearing on the Italy/Albania asylum treaty on Tuesday. My analysis of the legal issues: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Thank you sincerely @Globalisation and Law Network for the invitation and exciting conversation!

What an engaging and sharp community @maastrichtu.bsky.social !

May i be added please? ❤️

With many thanks to @verfassungsblog.de @Giulia Raimondo @Martin Lemberg-Pedersen @Jan-Hendrik Seelow and @Amanda Musco Eklund 🙏

My thoughts on the burden, standard and method of proof in #ARE, #GRJ; #WS; #Hamoudi; #RA; #HMM and #COCG before the Strasbourg and Luxembourg courts 🙏

Max Weber Fellow @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, alumni
@leticiadiezsanchez.bsky.social, Sarah Tas, Theodosia Stavroulaki, and @marcoalmada.com, as well as Prof. @competitionprof.bsky.social 🎓👏

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YouTube video by Oxford Law Faculty Bonavero Report Launch: The Absolute Prohibition of Refoulement and Exceptional Circumstances

Check out the recording of our webinar on ”The absolute prohibition of refoulement and exceptional circumstances“ with Başak Çalı, @jameshathaway.bsky.social @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social and @mstille.bsky.social:
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We had Dr. Joyce De Coninck over this week at Utrecht University to talk to us about her book "The EU's Human Rights Responsibility Gap." She lays out how difficult it is for (often vulnerable) people to get relief for violations of their fundamental rights caused by the EU & its agencies & bodies.

Engaging with the Court during the Q&A on matters of burden, standard and method of proof in joint conduct between Fx and EU MS: one of the highlights of my career!Heartfelt thanks 2 the @front-lex.bsky.social directed by @iftachco.bsky.social Cohen, & supported by @Francesco Luigi Gatta. 💫

👩‍⚖️What.an.experience: blessed to have sat alongside the brilliant @Amanda Musco Eklund in representing Mr. Hamoudi in front of the CJEU’s Grand Chamber today.

Watch the hearing here: lnkd.in/ec2UM9C7

Alaa’s team is ready for the historic Hamoudi v Frontex hearing:

Front-LEX litigation manager @iftachco.bsky.social, Amanda Musco-Eklund, Francesco Gatta, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, and of course Alaa.

Let’s win this case!

🚀Globalisation & Law Network Seminar Series🚀

We’re excited to welcome @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social to discuss:

📝 The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations

📅 6 Feb 2025 | 11:00 - 12:30 CET
More info 👉 lnkd.in/euUzzaTy

Indeed ❤️❤️❤️

🚨In 2021 I started the book proposal for the "EU's Human Rights Responsibility Gap" (@hartpublishing.bsky.social ) @NYU as an Emile Noël Fellow with the wonderful @polatoja.bsky.social...now Thrilled to now discuss the book within the context of Pola's Jean Monnet Series!

📆 10/02
🌍 Amsterdam

@eui-eu.bsky.social is here!

In these days many of us are pondering over the meaning of life. Here's my take so far: 1/I have lived all my adult life as an eternal optimist and with the intention to do my share in making the world into a better place. To be a human rights law academic seemed a good choice of profession for that

✊🔉Today feels like the right day to join Bluesky and leave another platform behind!

🙋‍♀️🇪🇺Eager to connect with those who value democracy, human rights, and the rule of law ; and who have an interest in EU law/politics!

Let’s build connections that matter! 💙
#EUlaw #HumanRights #Democracy #Ruleoflaw

EU law and human rights law Prof Cecilia Rizcallah is here 👋
@ceciliarizcallah.bsky.social