The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sentenced this Tuesday to Russia for refusing to marry people of the same sex and underlined their refusal to change their laws to allow it. Russia thus incurred in “a violation of the right to respect for private and family life”, guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, the pan-European court ruled.
Since 2009, three gay couples have applied to the Russian civil status offices, which They rejected it by defending that the law only allows a wedding “between a man and a woman”. The Russian courts then dismissed the couples’ claims because they were going “against established national traditions”. They raised the case to the ECtHR in 2010 and 2014.
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In its decision, the court based in Strasbourg (north-eastern France) He recalls that he has already rejected Moscow’s argument that “Russians disapprove of homosexuality.”
Democracy implies a “balance that guarantees minority individuals fair treatment” and that avoids “any abuse of a dominant position,” he adds. Article 8 of the Convention obliges countries to “offer a legal framework” so that homosexual couples have “adequate recognition and protection”according to the court.
However, Russia did not issue in court “an intention to amend its domestic law to allow same-sex couples to benefit” from it, he added. Moscow is no longer part of the Council of Europe or the Convention since September 2022, but you must apply your court’s decisions on matters prior to your departure. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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