Authority: American Commission on Human rights

Date: 08/31/2016

Subject: The decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights sentenced the State for the violation of the principles of equality and non discrimination and the violation of the right to honour and to an effective remedy, following the discharge of lieutenant Homero Flor Freire, in execution of the punishment provided for by the Regulation of Military Discipline of 1998 for “homosexual behaviour”

Parties: Flor Freire vs. Ecuador

Original language: Spanish

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Equality - Art. 20 Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal

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