Swiss Supreme Court Rejects Application for Second Parent Adoption by a Lesbian Couple in a Registered Partnership
Switzerland, 5 May 2011 - The Supreme Court rejected an application by a lesbian woman for second parent adoption of her partner's child. One hurdle for the women was the fact that stepchild adoption is only available to married couples after five years' of marriage. The applicant's had only been in a registered partnership for three years.
It must be noted in this connexion that registered partnerships have only been available to same sex couples since 2007.
ECHR allows definitively gay parade in Moscow
17 April 2011, Russia - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected last Friday an appeal by the Russian government whose aim was to ban the gay pride marches in Moscow.
FRA/ ECHR Handbook on European non-discrimination law: launch event
2011-03-21
2011-03-21
Europe/Amsterdam
A Handbook on European Non-Discrimination Law by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will be launched at a seminar in Strasbourg on 21 March 2011. The Handbook aims to contribute to improving the implementation at national level of the EU's non-discrimination law and the non-discrimination standards of the Council of Europe.
The launch seminar will be live streamed on www.fra.europa.eu on 21 March 2011.
Russian marriage: equality case
Russia, 24 Jan 2011 – The European Court of Human Rights has accepted an action by two Russian women who married in Canada. The couple have brought proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights against Russia’s refusal to recognise their Canadian.
Mainstreaming Diversity: Rewriting Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
2011-02-03
2011-02-04
Europe/Amsterdam
The conference is organized by the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University, Belgium. It wants to address the way in which the European Court of Human Rights addresses diversity issues. There will be six panels, respectively dealing with gender, cultural minorities, religious minorities, children, disability and sexual orientation. In each panel, three scholars will propose a new draft of some crucial passages in a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, thus translating their theoretical views on the accommodation of diversity into judicial language.
ECtHR reinforces freedom of assembly for LGBT people
Strasbourg, 21 Oct 2010 — The First Section of the European Court of Human Rights found violation of the applicant's right to peaceful assembly on account of the repeated ban on public events he had organised in 2006, 2007 and 2008, violation of the right to an effective remedy against the violation of his freedom of assembly and found that the Moscow authorities’ treatment of his applications to hold the events had been discriminatory (Art. 11 in conjunction with Art. 14).
