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in 1968, the Belgian government argued that Article 14 was not relevant unless there was a substantive breach. For the first time, the court rejected this argument. Following this case, the court considers that for Article 14 to be considered "it suffices that the facts of a case fall within the
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the court assumed that for Article 14 to be relevant, a breach of one of the substantive Convention rights had to have occurred. If the court did find a substantive breach, it would not find it necessary to consider Article 14. In the
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expands on Article 14 to include a freestanding prohibition of discrimination in "any right set forth by law". Introduced in 2000, it has been ratified by 20 of 47 Council of Europe states as of 2021.
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acceptable in certain circumstances. According to the court's case law, any difference in treatment based on fixed status must be proportional to the justified aims pursued and the
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has especially narrowed with regard to different treatment based exclusively on ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. For example, in the 2013 case
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Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte (2009). "Still Silencing the Racism Suffered by Migrants . . . The Limits of Current Developments under Article 14 ECHR".
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scheme that only recognized different-sex couples was ruled to be a violation of Article 14 because it discriminated against same-sex couples.
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Fredman, Sandra (2016). "Emerging from the Shadows: Substantive Equality and Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights".
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Cuenca, Encarna Carmona (2012). "The Prohibition on Discrimination: New Content (Art. 14 ECHR and Protocol 12)".
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O'Connell, Rory (2009). "Cinderella comes to the Ball: Art 14 and the right to non-discrimination in the ECHR".
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Gerards, Janneke (2013). "The Discrimination Grounds of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights".
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ambit of another substantive provision of the Convention or its Protocols".
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Europe of Rights: A Compendium on the European Convention of Human Rights
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Proving Discriminatory Violence at the European Court of Human Rights
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Bell, Mark (2018). "Article 14 ECHR Prohibition of discrimination".
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Index

European Convention on Human Rights
prohibited grounds
discrimination
race
language
religion
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
equal treatment
sexual orientation
gender identity
European Court of Human Rights
indirect discrimination
Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
Belgian Linguistic case
substantive equality
affirmative action
margin of appreciation
registered partnership
"Salgueiro Da Silva Mouta v. Portugal"
doi
10.1163/157181399400839020
ISSN
0965-934X
"Goodwin v. United Kingdom. App. No. 28957/95 and I. v. United Kingdom. App. No. 25680/94"
doi
10.2307/3109851
ISSN
0002-9300
ISBN

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