Date
27th January 2010
Summary
This is an expert opinion on Article 16 (Equality of Rights) of the Moldovan Constitution which was sent to the Acting President Ghimpu of the Republic of Moldova. This opinion urges the Commission on Constitutional Reform to amend Article 16 of the Constitution to make it consistent with Moldova's international human rights obligations.
Countries
Geographical Location / M - R / Moldova
Issues
Issues / International and Regional Standards / International Standards
Issues / Concepts / Legal definitions
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Citizenship (nationality)
Date
9th December 2009
Summary
The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has submitted a legal brief to Ugandan President Yowere Museveni outlining how adoption of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently being debated would breach both Uganda’s Constitution and its international treaty obligations.
ERT’s submission calls on President Museveni and Ugandan parliamentarians to reject the Bill in its entirety, and to review the constitutionality of section 145 of the Ugandan Penal Code, which is currently used to prosecute homosexual conduct.
The 23-page submission by The Equal Rights Trust focuses solely on the rights to equality and non-discrimination, providing a detailed analysis of the way in which the proposed Bill would affect the enjoyment of these rights. ERT argues that protection from discrimination provided by the Constitution of Uganda includes protection on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. It further argues that the Bill does not comply with the Constitution’s own provisions for restricting fundamental rights. In the second part of the submission, ERT turns to questions of compliance with international law from the point of view of equality and non-discrimination.
Countries
Geographical Location / S - U / Uganda
Issues
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Sexual Orientation
Issues / Discrimination Areas / Criminal Justice System
Issues / International and Regional Standards / International Standards
Date
26th November 2009
Summary
A letter from the Equal Rights Trust to Commonwealth General Secretary Kamalesh Sharma expressing concern at the continuing and widespread legal discrimination against homosexuals across the Commonwealth of Nations, a situation brought into sharp focus by the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 before the parliament of Uganda in October 2009.
Countries
Geographical Location / S - U / Uganda
Issues
Issues / International and Regional Standards / International Standards
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Gender Identity
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Sexual Orientation
Issues / Discrimination Areas / Criminal Justice System
Date
19th October 2009
Summary
In this letter, the Equal Rights Trust (ERT) calls on members of the National Assembly of Mali to ensure that the draft Persons and Family Code is not regressively amended in response to concerns about the extension of equal rights for women.
ERT says that ‘there is much to be welcomed in the Code’ and expresses its concern that progressive articles will be amended or removed in response to hostile pressure in recent months over the enactment of the Code. However, ERT also identifies three articles in the Code which undermine the principles of equal participation and non-discrimination, and calls for these provisions to be amended before the Code is adopted to avoid putting Mali in breach of international obligations
Countries
Geographical Location / M - R / Mali
Issues
Issues / International and Regional Standards / Regional Standards
Issues / International and Regional Standards / International Standards
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Sex
Date
18th September 2009
Summary
The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has called on the Parliament of Sudan to repeal Article 152 of the country’s Criminal Act because it breaches the country’s human rights obligations.
Countries
Geographical Location / S - U / Sudan
Issues
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Sex
Date
30th May 2008
Summary
The Equal Rights Trust urges the Chairperson of the Chamber of Deputies and the deputies of the Czech Parliament, to adopt at the next session on 3 June 2008 the Law on Equal Treatment and Legal Measures of Protection from Discrimination and Amendments to Some Laws.
Date
8th November 2007
Summary
On 8 November 2007 The Equal Rights Trust call on Janez Janša, the Slovenian Prime Minister, to recall the Draft Constitutional Law, presented to the Parliament on 30 October, which is intended to resolve the status of the “erased” – people unlawfully removed from the registry of permanent residents in 1992. ERT urged Slovenian government to introduce instead legislation that is in line with international human rights law and the relevant decisions of the Slovenian Constitutional Court.
Countries
Geographical Location / S - U / Slovenia
Issues
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Citizenship (nationality)
Issues / International and Regional Standards / Regional Standards
Issues / International and Regional Standards / International Standards
Date
15th October 2007
Summary
The Equal Rights Trust's written comments to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Makuc and Others v. Slovenia (Application No. 26828/06)
Countries
Geographical Location / S - U / Slovenia
Issues
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Multiple Discrimination
Issues / Discrimination Areas / Social Assistance
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Race and Ethnicity
Issues / Discrimination Grounds / Citizenship (nationality)
Issues / Concepts / Types of Discrimination / Direct discrimination
Issues / Concepts / Types of Discrimination / Indirect discrimination
Issues / International and Regional Standards / Regional Standards