Azul Rojas Marín v. Peru, IACtHR, Series C No. 402, 12/03/2020
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Arbitrary arrest, rape and verbal abuse of a gay, currently trans, man by police officers during detention because of her sexual orientation – Discriminatory torture on the basis of sexual orientation – Violation of the rights to personal liberty, personal integrity, privacy, judicial guarantees and the judicial protection

Guzmán Albarracín and Others v. Ecuador, IACtHR, Series C No. 405, 24/06/2020
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Student repeatedly sexually abused by her public school's vice principal - Being pressured by the abuser to have an abortion, she committed suicide - Violation of the right to life, personal integrity, private life, dignity, education, health and to be free from gender violence and discrimination - State's obligation to adopt structural measures to address sexual violence in the school environment, including a policy to provide access to sex and reproductive education

Workers of the Fireworks Factory in Santo Antônio de Jesus and Their Families v. Brazil, IACtHR, Series C No. 407, 15/07/2020
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Death of sixty people among which twenty children and forty women constituting the majority of the city's low-income workers in the explosion of a fireworks factory – Gender stereotypes nurturing the division of labor pushing women to turn to fireworks industry – State's failure to regulate, supervise and address the factory's unsafe working conditions – Violation of the right to an effective remedy, to life, to personal integrity, to judicial protection, to equality in the enjoyment of health safety, children rights and non-discrimination in general

Judge Rapporteur: Gender-based violence, discrimination against women, intersectionality

Dissenting / Concurring: Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot / Vio Grossi / Sierra Porto / Pérez Manrique / Pazmiño Freire

Aghdgomelashvili and Japaridze v. Georgia, ECtHR, 7224/11, 8/10/2020
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Article 14 (+ Article3) (Discrimination and Degrading treatment) - Abusive police conduct during search of premises of an LGBT NGO motivated by homophobic and/or transphobic hatred - Wilful humiliation and debasement with the use of hate speech and insults

D v. France, ECtHR, 11288/18, 16/07/2020
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

The applicants, a married couple and their daughter born in Ukraine via gestational surrogacy, faced a refusal by the French Court of Appeal in 2017 to fully register the Ukrainian birth certificate, listing only the legal father-child relationship - The Court held that the intended mother could establish a legal relationship through adoption, not directly through the foreign birth certificate, in accordance with French law which does not permit gestational surrogacy - The Court found this approach did not violate the child's rights, as the adoption process provided an effective mechanism for establishing the mother-child relationship (no violation of Article 8)

D.B. and Others v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 58817/15, 58252/15, 22/11/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Protracted non-recognition of legal parent-child relationship between child born through gestational surrogacy abroad and intended father who was genetic father’s registered partner

Koychev v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 32495/15, 13/10/2020
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Dismissal of an action challenging paternity on the grounds of the interests of the child, who had been recognised by the mother’s husband, without sufficient safeguards for the alleged biological father - Violation of Article 8

Lopez Martinez v. Spain, ECtHR, 32897/16, 09/03/2021
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Article 14 in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - The applicant, a widow, argued that the denial of her right to a survivor’s pension due to her husband’s lack of social security contributions violated her rights - The decision to deny her pension was discriminatory based on her husband's failure to meet contribution requirements

Rana v. Hungary, ECtHR, 40888/17, 16/07/2020
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

A lawfully settled non-Hungarian transgender person’s request for legal gender recognition, which was refused by the authorities due to a gap in the relevant legislation in force at the material time - By not giving the applicant access to the legal gender recognition procedure, a fair balance had not been struck between the public interest and the applicant’s right to respect for his private life 

Rinau v. Lithuania, ECtHR, 10926/09, 14/01/2020
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Article 8 (Respect for family life) - Political interventions and procedural vagaries to impede court-ordered return of child unlawfully retained by other parent on respondent State’s territory

S.M. v. Croatia, ECtHR, 60561/14, 25/06/2020 [GC]
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Article 4 (Positive obligations/Effective investigation/Trafficking in human beings) - Failure to hold effective investigation into allegation of human trafficking and exploitation of prostitution

Dissenting / Concurring: Turković / O’Leary, Ravarani / Pastor Vilanova / Serghides

X and Y v. Romania, ECtHR, 2145/16, 20607/16, 19/01/2021
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2020

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for private life) - Refusal of national authorities to recognise male identity of transgender persons in the absence of gender reassignment surgery - Disruption of the fair balance between the general interest not clearly identified and the interests of the applicants