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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...

This case concerned the complaints by the Russian gay-rights activist, Nikolay Alekseyev about a repeated rejection by the Moscow authorities of his requests in 2006-2008 to organise a gay-pride.