Decisions
- Toonen v. Australia (1994) - held that sexual orientation was included in the treaty’s antidiscrimination provisions as a protected status.
- Waldman v. Canada (1999) - religious discrimination in school funding.
- Diergaardt v. Namibia (2000) - linguistic discrimination in communication with authorities.
- Ignatāne v. Latvia (2001) - non-objective way of evaluating official language skills of a candidate in elections.
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