Interesting new article on sexual violence against men and boys in armed conflict and the role of international criminal courts:
Alexander Schwarz, Sexualisierte Kriegsgewalt an Männern und Jungen und deren Verfolgung durch internationale Strafgerichtshöfe, in: Humanitäres Völkerrecht (nos. 3–4, 2019)
Spain: Government Agreement: Lesbian couples will no longer have to marry to be mothers
The Government agreement signed by the PSOE and Unidas Podemos undertakes to establish recognition of parenthood of all lesbian couples and provides legal protection to new stable forms of coexistence
Germany: Successful constitutional complaint concerning the equal treatment of marriage and registered civil partnership in the area of occupational retirement provision for employees of the public service
See also: https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=35146&pk_campaign=Nwsl
Sofia, born into a rainbow family with Irish and Polish mums, is stuck in Spain because both countries refuse to give her citizenship.
Croatia Court Rules Same-sex Couple Can Foster Children
After a long legal battle, a Croatian court has said that a same-sex couple have the right to become foster parents – a ruling that campaigning groups have termed ‘historic’.
https://balkaninsight.com/2019/12/20/croatia-court-rules-same-sex-couple-can-foster-children/
Belize’s appeal courts just unanimously ruled that gay sex is definitely legal
A German trans man underwent mandatory sterilisation to legally transition. Now he wants justice
Judgments of 18th December 2019 regarding the the complete transcription in France of the foreign birth certificate of the child born through surrogacy.
https://www.courdecassation.fr/jurisprudence_2/premiere_chambre_civile_568/111_18_44102.html
https://www.courdecassation.fr/jurisprudence_2/premiere_chambre_civile_568/112_18_44103.html
Judgment of 18th December 2019 concerning a couple of women who went through medically assisted procreation; this judgment opens the way for children born under assisted procreation to have the name of their two mothers mentioned on their birth certificate :
https://www.courdecassation.fr/jurisprudence_2/premiere_chambre_civile_568/113_18_44101.html
Courtesy of Caroline Mecary
UN Official Nils Melzer Equates Chelsea Manning Incarceration to Torture
Nils Melzer, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture, stated in his letter that coercive jail sentences like those imposed on Manning amount to torture under international law and called for Manning’s release.
Prosecutors and the judge have said that Manning faces the same obligations as all citizens to comply with lawful subpoenas and that she can end her jail term at any time by agreeing to testify.
US Ambassador to Zambia forced to leave country after confronting government over jailing of gay couple
