See also: Anti-gay Russian group inspired by “Saw” threatens to hunt LGBTQ people in EuropeThe decision by the committee against Finland is the first asylum-related case involving a child who faces risks to his personal and emotional well-being as a result of discrimination stemming from his mothers’ sexual orientation.
It also marks the first time that the committee has made a decision on sexual orientation, and the first case dealing with the rights that children of same-sex couples are entitled to in countries that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to LGBTQ advocacy group ILGA World.The committee’s decision was informed by a third-party intervention submitted by ILGA World, its European chapter, the.