The Inter-american Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights in the protection of LGBT people, between judicial activism and the need for common rules of protection
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the main advances and highlight the problems still to be resolved regarding the protection of homosexual couples and transsexual people through a critical study of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The first part of the essay will be devoted to observing and comparing the main characteristics of each Court; the second part aims to compare some elements that have been considered especially interesting in the case-law of the Inter-American Court and the Strasbourg Court in matters of protection of the LGBT community, with the aim of developing common standards of protection applicable at a global level. Specifically, two problems have been selected: access to marriage for homosexual couples, and the possibility of requesting and obtaining rectification of registered sex for transsexual people.
Received: 05.12.2024
Accepted: 06.12.2024
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