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B125/11 B138/11, Constitutional Court of Austria (12 December 2012)

Dec 12, 2012

Same-sex partners who have registered partnerships should be entitled to use the same ceremony as opposite-sex couples for marriage. Any difference in the treatment between marriage and registered partnerships can only be justified by particularly serious reasons. B...

Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, A/HRC/20/26/Add.1, 10 April 2012: Austria

Apr 10, 2012

III. Normative and institutional framework A. The legal framework for the protection of human rights 18. With regard to discrimination, Austria has adopted a number of laws associated with different procedures and institutions. The 1979 Equal Treatment Act was revised...

B-1405/10, Constitutional Court of Austria (22 September 2011)

Sep 22, 2011

The exclusion of opposite-sex couples from registered partnerships is constitutionally valid. Heterosexuals are not a disadvantaged group and so difference in treatment need not be justified by particularly serious reasons. B-1405/10, Constitutional Court of Austria...

B 518/11, Constitutional Court of Austria (22 September 2011)

Sep 22, 2011

Same-sex couples who are registered partners and married opposite-sex couples should have the same treatment with regards to hyphenation of their family names. Same-sex couples should equally profit from constitutional protection of the family. B 518/11,...

Concluding Observations, CERD/C/AUT/CO/17, 22 September 2008: Austria

Sep 22, 2008

13. The Committee welcomes the establishment in 2005 of the Ombudsperson for Equal Treatment irrespective of ethnic affiliation, religion or belief, age or sexual orientation in employment, and the Ombudsperson for Equal Treatment irrespective of ethnic affiliation in...