Tag: Alli Jernow
European Court of Human Rights: ban on same-sex second-parent adoption is discriminatory
Today the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of X and Others v. Austria (application 19010/07) and ruled that Austria’s Civil Code discriminates against a partner in a same-sex relationship by making it legally impossible to adopt the biological child of the other partner while permitting second parent adoptions for unmarried heterosexual couples.
Russia: human rights groups hail historic decision on homosexual propaganda ban
The International Commission of Jurists and ILGA-Europe welcome the historic decision by the UN Human Rights Committee in Irina Fedotova v. Russian Federation, which was released by the Committee on 19 November.