Á.C. and Others v. Hungary, ECtHR, 66078/17, 12918/19, 13/02/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Transgender individuals complained about the lack of a regulatory framework in Hungary for the legal recognition of their gender identity - Inadmissible - their requests had eventually been granted in 2018, and the waiting period did not constitute an unreasonable delay under Article 8 (right to private life).

Hanovs v. Latvia, ECtHR, 40861/22, 18/07/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Violation of Article 3 and Article 8 + Article 14 (Positive obligations, Effective investigation, and Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation) - Failure to adequately protect the applicant from a homophobic attack by ensuring the effective prosecution of the perpetrator and prosecuting the attack as a hate-motivated offence

M. A. and Others v. France, ECtHR, 63664/19, 64450/19, 24387/20, 24391/20, 24393/20, 25/07/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Article 8 - General and absolute criminalisation of the purchase of sexual acts as part of a comprehensive legislative framework to combat prostitution and human trafficking

M.Ș.D. v. Romania, ECtHR, 28935/21, 03/12/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Art 8 (Positive obligations/Private life) - Inadequate criminal legal framework, at the material time, not affording the applicant protection against acts of online harassment committed by her former intimate partner consisting of the non-consensual public dissemination of intimate photographs of her - Failure to conduct prompt and thorough criminal investigation

Mitrevska v. North Macedonia, ECtHR, 20949/21, 14/05/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Violation of Article 8 (positive obligations and private life) - Inability of the applicant, who was adopted as a child, to obtain information concerning her biological origins and health information about her biological parents - Failure to strike a balance between the competing interests at stake

Mykyas and Other v. Belgium, ECtHR, 50681/20, 09/04/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Muslim girls were prohibited from wearing the Islamic veil in their schools, with the exception of non-denominational religious and ethics classes by the school regulations - inadmissible (manifestly ill-founded)

National Youth Council of Moldova v. the Republic of Moldova, ECtHR, 15379/13, 25/06/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Violation of Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Refusal by local authorities to authorise the display of an anti-discrimination illustration on advertising billboards for depicting persons with disabilities and Roma in an undignified and humiliating manner

Oghlishvili v. Georgia, ECtHR, 7621/19, 04/07/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Violation of Article 2 (procedural) - Lack of effective investigation into the alleged suicide of the applicant’s daughter in a domestic violence context - Investigative authority’s non-compliance with requirement to display particular diligence and vigour when investigating a case involving violence against women could be read as sheer unwillingness to establish the truth

Side by Side International Film Festival and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 32678/18, 17172/20, and 30564/21
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Art 10 (Positive obligations/Freedom of expression) - Authorities’ years-long failure to secure safe and uninterrupted conduct of annual international LGBT film festival organised by the applicant company - Failure to take comprehensive action and to implement dissuasive measures concerning repeated telephone bomb threats and other false security alarms on film screening days

Verhoeven v. France, ECtHR, 19664/20, 28/03/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Article 8 (Family life) - Return of a child to his father in Japan ordered by the French courts under the Hague Convention - Existence of an adversarial and fair procedure

W.W. v. Poland, ECtHR, 31842/20, 11/07/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Violation of Article 8 (Private life) - Refusal to allow transgender person to continue hormone therapy in prison - Applicant particularly vulnerable as an imprisoned transgender person undergoing a gender reassignment procedure, thus requiring enhanced protection from the authorities

Dissenting / Concurring: Krzysztof Wojtyczek

X v. Greece, ECtHR, 38588/21, 12/02/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Article 3 and Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Failure of investigative and judicial authorities to adequately respond to rape allegations and submit the case to the careful scrutiny required - Adequate legal and regulatory domestic framework not applied in practice as investigation ineffective

Y.T. v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 41701/16, 04/07/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

The revision of the judgement, which was originally decided in 2020 - The applicant had failed to inform the ECtHR at the time of his success in obtaining legal gender recognition from another Bulgarian court and, therefore, retroactively found the case to be inadmissible

Dissenting / Concurring: Kateřina Šimáčková

Yevstifeyev and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 226/18, 236/18, 2027/18, and 22327/22, 03/12/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Art 14 (+ Art 8) Discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation/Private life - Domestic authorities’ failure to comply with positive obligation to respond adequately to homophobic motivated physical threats and verbal assault by a politician against three of the applicants at a rally

Z v. Czech Republic, ECtHR, 37782/21, 20/06/2024
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2024

Violation of Article 3 and Article 8 - Failure of the national authorities to effectively apply a criminal justice system capable of punishing non-consensual sexual acts alleged by a vulnerable victim who did not object during the sexual acts

C‑356/21, CJEU, 12/01/2023
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2023

Equal treatment in employment and occupation, conditions for access to self-employment, employment and working conditions – Prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation – Self-employed person working on the basis of a contract for specific work, termination and non-renewal of contract, freedom to choose a contracting party

Judge Rapporteur: M.L. Arastey Sahún

10/2024, CC, 06/12/2023
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2023

Penitentiary system – Possibility to have a conversation with the spouse, i.e. a party of a civil partnership, a de facto cohabiting partner or a person in a stable emotional relationship, without visual surveillance if, in consideration of the detainee’s behavior, there are no security problems or the need to maintain order and discipline, nor, judicial reasons - Disproportionate violation of personal dignity, of the principles protecting family ties and the detainee’s and his family members’ psycho-physical health