ECtHR –Judgment of 25.07.2012, B.S. v. Spain, 47159/08 – <<Articles 3 and 14 ECHR –Inhuman and degrading treatment – Prohibition of discrimination – Duty to carry out a thorough investigation of allegations of police ill-treatment>> – The judicial recogni

Authors

  • Ruth Abril Stoffels

Keywords:

Multiple discrimination, intersectional discrimination, cumulative discrimination, ill-treatment, multiple vulnerability, article 14 in relation with 3 of the CEDH, article 3 of the CEDH, prohibition of the discrimination

Abstract

The ECHR judgment in «Beauty Solomon vs Spain» case introduces for the first time in the frame of the European Convention of Human Rights the notion «multiple discrimination». In previous judgments like the one of «Muñoz Díaz vs Spain» it might have done it also, but the Court missed the opportunity. The «multiple discrimination » is a slippery concept that needs to be precised on the content on the juridical implications. This judgment, nevertheless it is very brief as for the justifications. This paper introduces us to this issue and offers some keys on the way forward.

Issue

Section

CASE LAW EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS