Content tagged with Prohibition of discrimination
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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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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.
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The ‘Foreign Agents Act’ is stifling independent civil society
Almost six years after the Russian parliament enacted legislation requiring any organisation receiving funding from abroad to register as ‘foreign agents’, EHRAC and Memorial HRC, alongside a consortium of other NGOs, are challenging the Act’s purpose before the European Court.
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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.