Top European human rights court backs French woman who refused sex with her husband
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She Was Faulted in Her Divorce for Refusing Sex. A European Court Disagreed.
A French court had ruled that a woman had violated her marital duties by not having sex with her husband. The European Court of Human Rights condemned that decision.
Top European rights court rules woman’s refusal to have sex not a fault in divorce case
A French woman who had stopped having sex with her husband and had been considered at fault in a divorce, has won a case at Europe’s top human rights court.
French Divorcee Who Stopped Having Sex With Husband Wins Appeal at European Court
The French woman - identified as Ms H.W, born in 1955 - brought her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2021 after exhausting legal avenues in France almost a decade following the divorce.
Top European court backs woman whose husband got a divorce because she stopped having sex with him
"I hope that this decision will mark a turning point in the fight for women's rights in France," the woman said.
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