UN Human Rights Committee finds case relating to refusal to recognise same-sex partnership inadmissible

View of the UN Human Rights Committee in E.H. v. Albania, a decision adopted in July 2023 and published on 28 November 2023. 

The case involves a bi-national same-sex couple seeking recognition of their relationship in the State party.  The Committee found the case inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies.  Laurence R Helfer authored a joint dissenting opinion explaining that the Committee should have declared the case admissible and found violations of articles 17, 23 (1) and 26 of the ICCPR, read alone and in conjunction with article 2 (3).

See: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/DownloadDraft.aspx?key=+nxllx+jasD+ilsd0u1hw9XiCV1fTHIVOT+ruixx1QuBJkvqhQranhCWVPVpJlAh79QTGeVFyM7m19zPrxe77w==