Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights

by Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, Melike Sayoglu

Book Overview

Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a small minority of activists have exhausted their domestic appeals and then turned to their last hope: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR, located in Strasbourg, France, is widely regarded as the most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019093283X
• ISBN13: 9780190932831
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"