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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
effective international human rights court in existence. Russian
citizens whose rights have been violated at home have brought tens
of thousands of cases to the ECtHR over the past two decades. But
only one of these cases resulted in a finding of gender
discrimination by the ECtHR-and that case was brought by a man. By
comparison, the Court has found gender discrimination more
frequently in decisions on Turkish cases. Courting Gender Justice
explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and
lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. To
shed light on the factors that make rare victories possible in
discrimination cases, the book draws comparisons among forms of
discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey.
Based on interviews with human rights and feminist activists and
lawyers in Russia and Turkey, this engaging book grounds the law in
the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend
their rights.
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