The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) has stated that Hungary is not contravening the European Convention on Human Rights by prohibiting assisted suicide or euthanasia, as well as assistance for conducting it in a foreign state. The affair, which was judged on...
The ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) has issued a judgement on the sensitive issue of post mortem assisted reproduction and the export of gametes or embryos. The facts Two recently widowed women, have lodged an appeal with the ECHR concerning the prohibition in...
On 4th October, the European Court of Human Rights passed judgement in a case opposing a Belgian citizen, Mr. Tom Mortier and the Kingdom of Belgium, concerning the euthanasia performed on his mother on 19th April 2012.
In the recent court case between a Danish euthanasia activist, Mr. Lings, versus the Kingdom of Denmark (Lings v. Denmark) the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the European Convention on Human Rights "does not guarantee the right to assisted suicide."...
On May 18, 2021, in its House judgment, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously concluded that refusing to recognize two persons as parents of a child born of surrogacy, does not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerns Valdis...
In its December 12, 2019 report, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the French courts' refusal to register the entire foreign birth certificate for a surrogacy case, mentioning the “intended mother” was an appropriate measure. Two surrogacy cases were presented...
A mother wished for her deceased son’s gametes to be sent to Israel for a post-mortem surrogacy or ART, since it is allowed in this country. However this request was declared inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Dominique Petithory Lanzmann, the...
