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Human rights judges agreed that Croatia?s decision to make it impossible for a partner in a same-sex relationship to obtain a residence permit for family reunification was discriminatory. In the chamber judgment in the case of Pajic v. Croatia (applicat...

Judgement in the case of violent crime perpetrated against victims because of their sexual orientation or gender identity - be that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or intersex (LGBTI) - and the response, or lack of it, by state authorities.

The European Court of Human Rights has issued its judgment in Kaos GL v Turkey in which it has unanimously held that the applicant had suffered a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concer...

The case concerned a transgender man from Iran who had obtained asylum in Hungary but could not legally change his gender and name in that country. The Court noted that the domestic system for gender recognition had excluded the applicant simply because...

Judgment of the case concerned a woman who was violently attacked in a Zagreb nightclub after refusing a man's advances and disclosing to him that she was a lesbian. The police failed to investigate the motive behind the attack and instituted only minor...

Het Europese Hof achtte de veroordelingen in de Britse Spanner-case tegen homomannen die vrijwillig SM bedreven en hiervan met elkaars medeweten opnames maakten, niet in strijd met artikel 8 van de Europese Conventie van Mensenrechten. Drie van de veroo...

Press release of the case B and C v. Switzerland, concerned a homosexual couple, one of whom risked being returned to the Gambia following the rejection of his partner's application for family reunification. He alleged he was at risk of ill-treatment if...

Press release issued by the Registrar of the Court in Chamber judgment in the case of Taddeucci and McCall v. Italy (application no. 51362/09). The case concerned a refusal by the Italian authorities to grant a residence permit to a gay couple on family...

The European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgement in the case of Schalk and Kopf v. Austria and ruled that Austria did not breach Article 12 (right to marry) by not allowing a same-sex couple to marry. The applicants, Horst Michael Schalk and J...

The applicants are P.B., a Hungarian national, and J.S., an Austrian national. They were born in 1963 and 1959 respectively and live in Vienna in a homosexual relationship. Relying on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), Article 14...