European Court of Human Rights Held Hearing on Stepparent Adoption in Same-Sex Families
16/12/2011
Submitted by
Rechtskomitee LAMBDA
1st December 2011 the Court held a Chamber hearing in the case of X. and Others v. Austria. The case concerns the complaint by two women, who live in a stable homosexual relationship, about the Austrian courts’ refusal to grant one of the partners the right to adopt the son of the other partner without severing the mother’s legal ties with the child (second-parent adoption). The applicants (the two women and the son) are represented by RKL-president, Dr. Helmut Graupner.
The press release of the Court and the webcast of the hearing can be accessed at the website of the Court (http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/Homepage_En/).
Direct links: press release (http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197...=F69A27FD8FB86142BF01C1166DEA398649), webcast (http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/H...0111201-1&lang=en&flow=high).
More information: +43(0)1/876 3061, +43(0)676/3094737, office@RKLambda.at, www.RKLambda.at
The press release of the Court and the webcast of the hearing can be accessed at the website of the Court (http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/Homepage_En/).
Direct links: press release (http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197...=F69A27FD8FB86142BF01C1166DEA398649), webcast (http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/H...0111201-1&lang=en&flow=high).
More information: +43(0)1/876 3061, +43(0)676/3094737, office@RKLambda.at, www.RKLambda.at
