Tag: European Convention on Human Rights

EU accepts local LGBT activists’ legal petition

| 09/11/2017 | 264 Comments

(CNS): The legal institutions of the European Union will be giving consideration to claims of discrimination by the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community after a petition delivered to the European Parliament by Colours Cayman was accepted. This is a small but important first step for the activists, who have been trying to attract the […]

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Brexit won’t affect right to petition ECHR

Brexit won’t affect right to petition ECHR

| 13/07/2016 | 26 Comments

(CNS): Following the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union, members of the community have been under the mistaken impression that this means the European Convention on Human Rights will no longer apply to Cayman. But Britain’s exit from the EU is unrelated to its relationship with the convention, which means that local people […]

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