European Court: Ukraine is in violation of human rights treaty because it does not recognize same-sex unions
June 08, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Ukraine is in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights, a human rights treaty drafted in 1950, because Ukraine does not offer legal recognition of homosexual unions.
The judges cited an anti-discrimination provision of the convention.
The Ukrainian constitution defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a proponent of legislation that would legalize same-sex civil unions.
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