Strategic litigation

On 24 June 2013, the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union adopted Guidelines To Promote and Protect the Enjoyment of All Human Rights by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons.

Laws banning ‘propaganda of homosexuality’ are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and should be repealed, says European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission)

On 25 April 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union, delivered its preliminary ruling in a case concerning public statement made by a patron of SC Fotbal Club Steaua București SA, who categorically stated that he would never hire a homosexual player.

Today the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of X and Others v. Austria (application 19010/07).

In its judgment in Eweida and Others v. United Kingdom, issued on 15 January, the European Court of Human Rights affirmed that the right to act in accordance with one’s religion may be limited in order to protect others from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Joint media release by the International Commission of Jurists and ILGA-Europe.

Joint media release by International Commission of Jurists and ILGA-Europe

The European Court of Human Rights says that criminal conviction for distributing leaflets offensive to homosexuals was not contrary to freedom of expression

Harassment of Transgender Individuals Must End: joint statement.

On 10 May 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgement in the case of Jürgen Römer v Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg which dealt with the issue of whether lower supplementary retirement pension for registered same-sex partners compared to married partners constituted unequal treatment.