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The Intersectional Rewrites project is hosting a blog symposium, dedicated to examining the role intersectional analysis plays and could play in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
Single-Axis Rights in a Multi-Axis World: The Need for Intersectionality in European Headscarf Ban Jurisprudence
The European Court of Human Rights (the Court) recently issued its ruling in Mikyas v. Belgium (Mikyas), upholding the ban on visible religious symbols, including
What the European Court of Human Rights Can Learn from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Intersectionality
Introduction The impact of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (European Court) on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court) has
Intersectionality in Strasbourg: ensuring an effective protection of Convention rights
This blog symposium, and the project it is part of, are revisiting a number of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights through an
Dismantling the gendered understanding of pregnancy in discrimination cases under the ECHR
Introduction The experiences of cisgender women are frequently linked to prevailing conceptions about pregnancy and childbirth. Transgender men, as well as other non-binary individuals expressing
The Court’s failure to distinguish poverty from race as intersecting grounds of oppression: reinforcing anti-Roma stigma
Hudorovic and Others v. Slovenia: domestic law prevented indigent Roma from connecting their homes to clean water and sewerage, while the ECtHR assumed they chose
G.M. and Others v. Republic of Moldova: at the intersection of gender, disability, institutionalisation, and rape survivor status
While nearly 35 years have passed since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in her essay, the concept has not gained the prominent role in
Intersectionality and the failures of the European Court of Human Rights: A critical analysis of Hämäläinen v. Finland
In Hämäläinen v. Finland (2014) the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) affirmed Finland’s refusal to register Hämäläinen as a transitioned married woman. This
The European Court of Human Rights’ Semenya case
The recent decision in the case of Caster Semenya is hardly the first instance where the Court was forced to face the music regarding its
