Articles about European Convention On Human Rights

6 May 2013
Tory MPs urge David Cameron to scrap equal marriage bill over UKIP threat 84 David Cameron, has been urged to scrap the equal marriage bill, in an effort to attempt to win back voters who chose UKIP over his party in last week's local elections.
30 March 2013
Northern Ireland: Amnesty warns of future legal battle over marriage inequality 7 Amnesty International and the Rainbow Project have warned that the Northern Irish government will be subject to "a straightforward legal challenge on the basis of inferior treatment" from its residents, unless it brings its laws in line with the rest of the UK on equal marriage.
25 November 2012
Yorkshire Tory MP: Same-sex marriage is being forced on churches 37 Conservative MP for Dewsbury Simon Reevell has become the latest MP to suggest that churches will be forced to conduct same-sex marriages despite government assurances.
11 November 2012
UK equalities minister: Gay couples will be banned from suing churches that refuse to marry them 154 The British equalities minister has confirmed that gay couples are to be prevented from using European human rights laws to demand a church to marry them.
30 October 2012
Nadine Dorries: Same-sex marriage could cost the Tories 4 million votes 84 Tory MP Nadine Dorries says the issue of marriage equality could drain the Conservative Party of four million votes from Christian supporters.
20 April 2012
Row after Tory MEPs abstain from pro-LGBT amendment vote 55 Labour MEPs have criticised Tories this week for abstaining from a vote at the European Parliament on an amendment strengthening LGBT protections, with Tories accusing them of 'grandstanding' in response.
19 March 2012
French gay couple lose adoption appeal at European Court 58 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against a lesbian couple from France who were seeking to jointly adopt a child one of them had conceived.
24 November 2011
UK Government criticises proposed anti-gay Russian law 14 In a statement, released on Wednesday, an FCO spokesperson said: “The message of this law, that homosexuality is unacceptable, let alone in any way similar to a crime like paedophilia, is wrong".
12 December 2009
Gay soldier Ben Rakestrow comes out on return from Afghanistan 39 A 21-year-old member of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (2RTR) has become one of the first British openly gay soldiers serving in a major conflict.

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