Violation of the Right to Private and Family Life in Case of Lack of Official Recognition of Same-sex Relationships

The present study focuses on presenting the positive obligations of signatory states European Convention Human Rights, under Art. 8 Convention, to provide a legal framework enabling same-sex couples enjoy adequate protection their relationship. In order achieve proposed research objective, we considered most recent cases before Court namely case Buhuceanu et al. against Romania, respectively Fedotova Russia.