Skip to main content

Posts

Featured

Sexual orientation discrimination and Article 14 of the ECHR

I have made available a draft of an article that considers how the European Court of Human Rights applies and interprets Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights in cases concerning sexual orientation discrimination. Here is the abstract: Gay and lesbian people have long looked to Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights to challenge and address odious forms of discrimination against them. Article 14 ECHR, which prohibits discrimination in respect of the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms contained in the ECHR, has been invoked in a wide range of complaints about sexual orientation discrimination in the European Court of Human Rights since the early 1980s. Although, over time, the Court has developed important protections for gay and lesbian people through its evolving case law, its approach to Article 14 ECHR in respect of sexual orientation discrimination has remained inconsistent. This article critically explores the inconsistencies in the Court’s approac

Latest posts

40th anniversary of gay law reform in Northern Ireland

LGBT People, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights

Refusal to recognise a legal relationship between a child and the biological mother’s ex-partner: no violation of Article 8 ECHR

European Court of Human Rights rejects complaint by lesbian human rights group in Croatia

The "gay cake" case - guest post on Lee v the UK

Failure to conduct an investigation into homophobic hate crime in Moldova violates the ECHR

European Court of Human Rights declares inadmissible a case concerning children who were denied Polish citizenship on the grounds they were born via surrogacy and have same-sex parents