Content tagged with Prohibition of discrimination
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Resource | Case Summary | 23 May 2017 | By Tatiana Stryzheuskaya
Bălșan v Romania
Angelica Bălșan, was subjected to physical assaults and threats from her husband on numerous occasions between 2007 and 2008.
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Resource | Case Summary | 25 Jul 2017 | By Kia Kyhl
Carvalho Pinto de Sousa Morais v Portugal
The applicant is a Portuguese woman, who in 1995 underwent surgery at the Central Lisbon Hospital for a gynaecological disease causing her pain.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Jun 2017 | By Emil Sahakyan
Bayev and others v Russia
The three applicants are gay rights activists, who were fined for holding demonstrations against laws banning the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ among minors.
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Resource | Report | 1 Dec 2017 | By Victoria Kerr
The first report of the Independent Expert on SOGI
Victoria Kerr (former EHRAC intern) summarises the first report of the UN’s Independent Expert on SOGI, and some of his key concerns.
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Resource | Article | 1 Dec 2017 | By Gema Fernández Rodríguez de Liévana
The CEDAW Committee’s General Recommendation 35
Gema Fernández analyses General Recommendation 35 from the UN CEDAW Committee, and analyses its vision for a world free from gender-based violence.
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“They said that I’m not a human, that I am nothing. That I would be better off a terrorist, than a fag”
In July 2017, the Russian LGBT Network published a report into the persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya, after a joint investigation with Novaya Gazeta.
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Georgia’s denial of legal gender recognition to trans men challenged before European Court
A trans man, Mr D, is challenging Georgia’s refusal to change the gender marker in his official documents before the European Court of Human Rights.
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Femicide in Georgia: EHRAC and partners argue State responsibility
EHRAC and our partners at the Georgian Young Lawyers Association and Union Sapari (Tbilisi) are litigating three femicide cases from Georgia.
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Resource | Article | 27 Jun 2017 | By Ayder Muzhdabaev
“Putin’s new ghetto has no barbed-wire fence – just surveillance and harassment”
The Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, has swiftly degenerated into the scene of the greatest repression being conducted anywhere in the entire country.
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European Court: Russia has case to answer on ‘Law on Foreign Agents’
The European Court of Human Rights decided to refer a series of cases to the Russian Government on the ‘Foreign Agents Act’, legislation which places administrative and financial sanctions on NGOs receiving funding from abroad.