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issued by the Registrar of the Court   ECHR 060 (2024)   14.03.2024   Judgments and decisions of 14 March 2024   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing 16 judgments1 and 43 decisions2:   two Chamber judgments are summarised below;   Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been submitted to the Court, and   the 43 decisions, can be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release.   The judgments below are available only in English.   Association of People of Silesian Nationality (in liquidation) v. Poland   (application no. 26821/17)   The applicant is the Association of People of Silesian Nationality (Stowarzyszenie Osób Narodowości   Śląskiej). It was registered in 2011 and went into liquidation in 2016.   Silesia (Śląsk) is a historic region that is now in south-western Poland. According to a 2011 census   nearly half a million people declared that they had Polish and “Silesian” nationality. The case   concerns the Polish courts’ ordering the dissolution of the applicant association in 2015. The   Supreme Court had held in particular that the name of the association, which in its view was linked   to a non-existent nation, would be misleading to the public.   Relying in particular on Article 11 (freedom of association) of the European Convention on Human   Rights, the applicant association complains that the decision to dissolve it was arbitrary.   Violation of Article 11   Just satisfaction: The applicant did not submit any claim for just satisfaction.   Moldovan v. Ukraine (no. 62020/14)   The applicant, Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Moldovan, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1993   and lives in the village of Chornivka, Chernivtsi Region (Ukraine).   Mr Moldovan was born out of wedlock. The person who he considered to be his father died in 2012.   The case concerns the rejection of Mr Moldovan’s civil action for judicial recognition of paternity.   The courts dismissed his application essentially because he had failed to prove that his mother and   late putative father had ever cohabited or that the latter had ever recognised his paternity in any   way.   Relying on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention,   Mr Moldovan complains that the courts refused to take into account DNA evidence, insisting instead   on applying outdated legislation requiring proof of cohabitation and other “social” circumstances.   Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a judgment’s   delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a panel of five   judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and deliver a final   judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the Convention,   judgments delivered by a Committee are final.   Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.   Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution.   Inadmissibility and strike-out decisions are final.   Violation of Article 8   Just satisfaction:   non-pecuniary damage: 4,500 euros (EUR)   costs and expenses: EUR 500   This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions,   judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int. To receive   the Court’s press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter   @ECHR_CEDH.   Press contacts   [email protected]e.int | tel.: +33 3 90 21 42 08   We would encourage journalists to send their enquiries via email.   Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel.: + 33 3 88 41 35 30)   Denis Lambert (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 41 09)   Inci Ertekin (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 55 30)   Neil Connolly (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 48 05)   Jane Swift (tel.: + 33 3 88 41 29 04)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe member   States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   2