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01.12.2011 | European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights Held Hearing on
Stepparent Adoption in Same-Sex Families
1st December 2011 the Court held a Chamber hearing in
the case of X. and Others v. Austria. The case concerns
the complaint by two women, who live in a stable
homosexual relationship, about the Austrian courts’
refusal to grant one of the partners the right to adopt
the son of the other partner without severing the
mother’s legal ties with the child (second-parent
adoption). The applicants (the two women and the son)
are represented by ECSOL-Co-Coordinator and RKL-president,
Dr. Helmut Graupner.
Website of the Court:
http://www.echr.coe.int
Press release:
http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int
Webcast:
www.echr.coe.int |
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29.08.2011
| Montenegro
Milestone
international conference on rights of sexual minorities
Senior state officials, members
of the diplomatic corps, prominent international
experts, scholars and human rights advocates from
throughout Europe, the United States and Canada will
meet in Danilovgrad, Montenegro from 2-5 September for
the international conference on the rights of sexual
minorities and European integration, entitled “Toward
Europe, Toward Equality”. The conference is organised by
the Government of Montenegro, in cooperation with the
International Academic Conference Justice in the
Balkans: Equality for Sexual Minorities, The Williams
Institute at the UCLA School of Law in the United
States, the Lund University Department of Sociology of
Law in Lund, Sweden, and the European Commission on
Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL). Financial support is
provided by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade.  more |
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21.10.2010 | European Court of Human Rights
Russian Gay Pride Cases
Won
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has
ruled that the bans of the Moscow Pride marches and
pickets in 2006, 2007 and 2008 violated Art. 11, 13 and
14 ECHR. The cases have been represented before the
ECtHR by Russian ECSOL-member, Dmitri Bartenev. |
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11.04.2010 |
Portugal
Constitutional Court Affirms Same-Sex Marriage
The President of the Republic had
some doubts about the constitutionality of the bill
lifting the prohibition of marriage for same-sex couple,
and decided to ask the Constitutional Court to review it
before he signed it. The Court has decided that the bill
is not unconstitutional.
The decision is available
online at
www.tribunalconstitucional.pt (in Portuguese only).
If past practice is followed in this case, this means
that the President of the Republic will sign the bill
into law shortly. |
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31.03.2010
| Council of Europe
Committee of Ministers Recommends to Combat
Sexual-Orientation- & Gender-Identity-Discrimination
The Committe of Ministers of the
Council of Europe (COE) adopted a historical
Recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on
grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. The
Recommendation to the 47 member-states of the COE is an
important overarching document which deals with: right
to life, security and protection from violence; freedom
of association; freedom of expression and peaceful
assembly; right to respect for private and family life;
employment; education; health; housing; sports; right to
seek asylum; national human rights structures;
discrimination on multiple grounds. In many respects the
Recommendation reaffirms and specifies the ECtHR;s case
law. The Recommendation has been elaborated by a
COE-expert-commission presided by Swedish ECSOL-member
Hans Ytterberg.
The full text of the Recommendation:
https://wcd.coe.int
The
Explanatory Report:
https://wcd.coe.int |
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16.02.2010 |
EU-Agency for Fundamental Rights
ECSOL accepted to the Fundamental Rights Platform
The European Union Agency for
Fundamental Rights (http://fra.europa.eu)
accepted the European Commission on Sexual Orientation
Law (ECSOL) as a member of its Fundamental Rights
Platform. The Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) (http://fra.europa.eu)
is a network for cooperation and information exchange,
set to act as the main channel for FRA's cooperation
with civil society and to ensure a close cooperation
between the Agency and relevant stakeholders. |
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18.07.2009 | Vienna
ECSOL-meeting 2008
The European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL) held its 2008 members
meeting 31 Oct to 2 Nov 08 in Vienna. Alongside this meeting, which was organised by
Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL), ECSOL
provided a workshop on the case-law of the European Court of Justice at ILGA-Europe’s
simultaneously held Annual Conference. Dr. Mia Witmann-Tiwald, judge at the Vienna Court
of Appeals, gave us the honour and guided ECSOL-members through Vienna’s Palace of
Justice and presented not only the building and the courts hosted there but also
provided a very interesting journey into Austria’s legal history. |
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