International adoption – Unnecessary interference in a democratic society of the provision preventing single persons from applying for the declaration of suitability to adopt and the judge from issuing a decree of suitability for international adoption – Constitutional illegitimacy of art. 29-bis, par. 1 of law no. 184 of 4/05/1983
Article 3 (lack of effective investigation) and Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) - Failures in the investigation - Prejudicial gender stereotypes and victim-blaming attitudes
Gender-based violence against women – Domestic violence – Threat of ‘honour killing’
Judge Rapporteur: N. Piçarra
Qualification for refugee status – ‘Membership of a particular social group’ – Third-country nationals who are minors and who identify with the fundamental value of equality between women and men by reason of their stay in a Member State
Judge Rapporteur: N. Piçarra
Social policy, Directive (EU) 2019/1158, balance between working life and private life of parents – Single-parent family, equal treatment with two-parent families – Extension of maternity leave
Judge Rapporteur: A. Prechal
Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Possibility to assign a ‘third gender’ other than male or female gender – Alleged violation of the principle of equality, the right to personal identity, the right to health and the right to private and family life
Rights and protections of family member working continuously in the family or family business – Inclusion of de facto cohabiting partner – Violation of fundamental personal rights, unequal treatment and the right to work and fair pay
Civil partnership – Automatic dissolution of civil partnership in case of judicial correction of one party’s assigned gender – The judge suspends the effects of the civil partnership until the celebration of the marriage and, in any case, not later than one hundred and eighty days from res judicata of the gender rectification judgment, if the two parties express, personally and jointly, their intention to marry until the required hearing
Sexual violence and criminal offences against sexual freedom - Gang rape – Extenuating circumstance for minor participation in the criminal offence
Sexual violence criminal offence - Telematic sexual violence - Using remote communication tools such as telephone, video call, chat, to force the offended person to perform sexual acts
Sexual violence and criminal offences against sexual freedom - Absence of offended person’s physical response and of outward signs indicating violence - Vis grata puellis
Sexual violence and criminal offences against sexual freedom – Gang rape
Non-consensual termination of pregnancy, proof of abortion intention – Threats aiming at inducing the offended person to have an abortion - Private violence and personal injuries
Sexual violence and sexual acts with a minor – Aggravating circumstance of physical or mental inferiority in the sexual violence criminal offence - Student abused by music teacher
Special adoption request by intended parent rejected in absence of strong relationship with the child
Equal treatment for men and women – Part-time work - Workers of one sex are at a particular disadvantage compared to workers of the other sex
Same-sex couple – Recognition of child’s born by surrogacy birth certificate – Biological mother and intended mother’s separation
Refusal of the civil registrar to name in child’s birth certificate both women as mothers - Child conceived by medically assisted heterologous procreation and born abroad - Adoption in ‘special cases’ is the legal instrument for the intended parent in same-sex couples
Request to register both women and not only the giving-birth mother as mothers of a child born through recourse to heterologous MAR - civil registrar cannot receive intentional parent’s statement aiming at establishing a a parent-child relationship
Minor born as a result of medically assisted heterologous procreation - Request for cancellation of registration in Italy of foreign birth certificate