Tag: ECHR
Russia fined for blocking LGBTQ+ organisations
The European Court of Human Rights has fined Russia. The reason for this was that the country blocked three LGBTQ + organisations when trying to register as legal entities.
Russia’s ban on LGBTQ rallies violates rights, European Court of Human Rights rules
Russian authorities have been putting obstacles on LGBTQ rallies for years, and systematically turning down LGBTQ permit requests.
European Court Ends Forced Sterilisations of Trans People
Today the European Court of Human Rights ruled that requiring sterilisation of individuals seeking a change in their legal gender recognition violates human rights.
European court strikes against Hungary’s arbitrary detention of LGBT asylum seekers
Today, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Hungary’s two-month-long detention of an Iranian gay man applying for asylum is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Refusal to grant a same-sex (non-EU) partner a residence permit was discrimination based on sexual orientation
The European Court of Human Rights has stated that Italy’s refusal to grant one partner in a same-sex couple a residence permit violated their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. Today (30 June 2016) the Strasbourg court held that to deny same-sex couples residence permits on ‘family grounds’ was discrimination.
Radical group Christian Concern celebrates France win over Chapin and Charpentier
European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the French courts did not discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation, when French court declared a marriage between a same-sex couple to be not valid.