Concluding Observations, CEDAW/C/BRA/CO/7, 23 March 2012: Brazil

B. Positive Aspects 7. The Committee notes the role of the Supreme Court in guaranteeing the rights of men and women in the implementation of the Maria da Penha Law and on its decision on equal rights and obligations for same-sex couples. Link to full text of the...

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