Content tagged with A14: Prohibition of discrimination
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European Court finds Russia’s refusal to register 3 LGBT organisations unjustified and discriminatory
On 16 July 2019, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia’s refusal to register associations set up to promote and protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to violate the rights to freedom of association and to be discriminatory on the grounds of sexual orientation. The Court’s judgment was informed by a third party intervention submitted jointly by the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), ILGA-Europe and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on 29 July 2016.
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EHRAC pushes for State accountability for failures to protect women from gender based violence
Over the last year, EHRAC and our partners at Georgia have litigated five cases of violence against women from Georgia before the ECtHR and the CEDAW Committee. These cases address a broad spectrum of gender based violence, from honour-based crimes in ethnic minority communities to abuse perpetrated by law enforcement officers.
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Armenian newspaper’s ‘Blacklist’ of LGBTI activists is hate speech
EHRAC and PINK Armenia are representing 14 people included on a 'blacklist' in 2014 inciting discrimination against LGBTI+ people.
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Police should protect from and investigate religious hate crime against Georgia’s Muslim minority
Plans for a Muslim school in Kobuleti were marred by abuse by Orthodox Christians, who, at the peak of their hate crime, nailed a pig’s head to the school.
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Azerbaijani authorities required by European Court to account for violent police raids on LGBT+ community
In September 2017, over 80 LGBT+ people were arrested in Baku. Some claim they were tortured and severely ill-treated by the police. In March 2018, 25 individuals took their case to the European Court to hold the Azerbaijani authorities responsible for what happened.
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Resource | Case Summary | 29 Jan 2019 | By Emily Campbell & Roman Kiselyov
Dzhioyeva & others; Kudukhova & Kudukhova; and Naniyeva & Bagayev v Georgia
The Court issued an admissibility decision in three cases against Georgia from Tskhinvali region concerning the Russia-Georgia conflict in August 2008.
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Georgia’s denial of legal gender recognition to trans men challenged before European Court
Two trans men are challenging Georgia’s refusal to change the gender marker in his official documents before the European Court of Human Rights.
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Resource | Article | 19 Dec 2018 | By Olena Shevchenko
Standing up in the face of discrimination and hate crime
Olena Shevchenko (Insight, Ukraine) explains the difficulties she has faced in the last year as one of the most high-profile activists on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity or expression in Ukraine, particularly following the International Women’s Day march in Kyiv on 8 March.
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Citizens without a voice: Crimean IDPs unable to vote
Their home was occupied. They had to move, rebuilding their lives and careers in a city hundreds of kilometres away. They wanted to participate in the democratic process of their new city, but were denied the right to vote. Why? Because their official place of registration is in the occupied territory.
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Resource | Case Summary | 13 Feb 2018 | By Olga Grygorovksa
Tsezar and others v Ukraine
The applicants currently reside in Donetsk, outside of the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. They were recipients of social benefits. Due to the conflict, the domestic authorities transferred the jurisdiction of the Donetsk courts to neighbouring regions that were under government control.