Already 45.000 support citizens initiative

Last Tuesday, 17 November 2015, federal parliament´s Committee for Petitions and Citizen Initiatives began dealing with citizen initiative "Ehe Gleich!". Unanimously the parliamentarians decided to request the Minister of Justice and the Minister for Family Affairs to submit their views on marriage equality until the Committee´s next meeting at the beginning of next year.

Bürgerinitiative: schon zehntausende für Ehe Gleich!
Trotz EGMR-Urteil: Entwurf des Justizministeres verhöhnt die Opfer
Antidiskriminierung: Hundsdorfer redet nicht mit uns


 

JUS AMANDI Ausgabe 3/2015 | JUS AMANDI Archiv

Winning the Freedom to Marry

The historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 26, 2015 paved the way for the freedom to marry nationally. Marriage licenses are now being issued across the United States. Evan Wolfson, Founder and President of Freedom to Marry, the campaign that won equal marriage rights in the U.S., will discuss his decades-long, hard-fought fight for the freedom to marry and the lessons for the work ahead.

Panel Discussion:
Marijana Grandits, Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award winner 2015; University of Vienna
Helmut Graupner, President of Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL), Austria’s LGBT-rights-organization; spokesperson of the citizens' initiative Ehe Gleich!
Evan Wolfson, Founder and President of Freedom to Marry
Moderated by Robert Greenan, U.S. Embassy Vienna

Rechtskomitee LAMBDA urges Minister of Justice to decriminalise safer sex

The Vienna Appeals Court recently delivered a judgment approving the prosecution of Hiv-positive persons for abiding to the state propagated safer sex rules. Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL) calls for immediate statutory clarification that obeying state sponsored rules constitutes no criminal offence. It said being upset that this matter of course has to be called for.

Bürgerinitiative Ehe Gleich!
ÖVP hält an Diskriminierung fest
Standesamtsverbot: EGMR leitet Verfahren gegen Österreich ein


 

JUS AMANDI Ausgabe 2/2015 | JUS AMANDI Archiv