30931, CSC, 13/10/2020
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2020

Attempted sexual violence - Relationship between the offence of persecutory acts and attempted aggravated murder - Circumstances such as to provoke a persistent state of anxiety in the victim and fear for her own safety and her relatives and cohabitants’ one, thus affecting her modus vivendi and the overall psychological state

34512, CSC, 03/11/2020
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2020

Stalking - Publication of merely mocking posts on a Facebook page accessible to anyone does not constitute persecutory acts and, if it falls within the limits of the legitimate freedom of thought and the right to criticism, it is legitimate - The state of anxiety engendered by invasive communications in the private sphere must be triggered for the crime of stalking to be established

37077, CSC, 03/11/2020
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2020

Persecutory acts – Family abuse - Absorption of the offence of persecutory acts into the offence of ill-treatment even when cohabitation has ceased depending on the nature of the relationship between the defendant and the injured party

5198, CSC, 28/10/2020
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2020

Ban on surrogacy in Italy - Use of surrogacy in other countries that allow it - Impossibility of prosecuting the criminal offence in Italy

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