UN-General Assembly Elects RKL-Honorary-Board-Member Lilian Hofmeister
26.06.2014
We are cordially congratulating Dr. Lilian Hofmeister, judge at the Austrian Constitutional Court and member of RKL´s honorary board. On 26 June the UN General Assembly has elected her as a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (the first Austrian in this function). We are wishing her every success in her work in this important institution.
Lesbian Couple Challenges Joint Adoption Ban in Constitutional Court Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL): „Ban violates best interests of the child
11.06.2014 | Austria
As part of the current litigation offensive by Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL), Austria´s LGBT-rights organisation, a lesbian couple from the state of Upper Austria applied to the Constitutional Court to strike down Austria´s ban on joint adoption by same-sex couples.
JUS AMANDI Issue 2/2014 published
Eheverbot: Gebt die Abstimmung frei!
Gleichstellung: Österreich muss Malta werden!
Kein Pflegekind für lesbisches Paar aus NÖ
JUS AMANDI Ausgabe 2/2014 | JUS AMANDI Archiv
Lesbian Couple excluded from Child Fostering
09.05.2014 | Austria
Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL): „We take this scandalous case to Strasbourg“
The Austrian Administrative Supreme Court has confirmed the ban on child fostering for same-sex couples in the state of Lower Austria. The couple which had been refused to be adopted on the list of potential foster parents would have no right at all to challenge this exclusion from the list. Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL), Austria´s LGBT-rights-association, is outraged that the two women even are refused the right to challenge their discrimination
The End of the Enlightenment?
26.01.2014
The EU-parliament wants to criminalize sex work in the whole Union. This is the first time since the French Revolution that in Europe heterosexual sex between consenting adults shall be recriminalized.
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