CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Matuzovic, Bojana |
|---|---|
| Title | Freedom of Assembly under the jurisdictions of Croatia, Serbia, and the European Court of Human Rights; Pride Parades |
| Summary | Freedom of assembly is recognized as one of the basic components of a democratic society. It is protected by many international and regional legal instruments. Freedom of assembly enjoys constitutional and legal protection in every democratic country. This rights does not have character of absolute rights, it is subject to certain limitations. How wide those limitations are, within the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights and jurisdictions of Croatia and Serbia will be assessed in this research. General overview of the freedom of assembly, as guaranteed by the European Convention of Human Rights, will be introductory way to the more narrow issue. That issue is freedom of assembly in case of pride parades. The Court recently decided two cases concerning issue of pride parades. Because of its consistency these two cases are good setting grounds for further development. I will discuss factual and legal situation from two countries, Serbia and Croatia. I will explain and discuss how was the impact of important governmental, political and social factors on different development of pride parades in two countries with similar culture, history and laws. Through my work I will argue that European pressure, as external factor, is important to secure freedom of assembly for LGBTQI people, but it is not detrimental for success. Internal factors played key role in the process of development of pride parades in Serbia and Croatia. |
| Supervisor | Professor Eszter Polgari |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/matuzovic_bojana.pdf |
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