Gudiel Álvarez and Others ('Diario Militar') v. Guatemala, IACtHR, Series C No. 253, 20/11/2012
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Forced disappearance of 26 people registered in a 'military diary' between 1983-1985 in the context of an internal conflict - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to judicial protection, to personal integrity, and to freedom of association

Massacres of El Mozote and Nearby Places v. El Salvador, IACtHR, Series C No. 252, 25/10/2012
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Series of massive, collective and indiscriminate executions of civilians and attacks to their properties conducted by the Salvadorian Armed Forces - Ineffective investigations - State's failure to protect the civilian population, especially children and women being at greater risk and vulnerability - Violation of the right to life, to humane treatment, to private property, and to an effective remedy

Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi / García-Sayán

Río Negro Massacres v. Guatemala, IACtHR, Series C No. 250, 4/09/2012
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Forced disappearances, murders, inhumane treatment and sexual violence against women in the context of the massacres against members of Río Negro community perpetrated by the Army of Guatemala and members of the Civilian Self-Defense Patrols - Violation of freedom from slavery, freedom of association, movement and residence, conscience and religion, the right to humane treatment, to life, to a fair trial, and to judicial protection

Harroudj v. France, ECtHR, 43631/09, 04/10/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Refusal of permission to adopt owing to prohibition of adoption in child’s country of birth - No violation of Article 8

I.G. and Others v. Slovakia, ECtHR, 15966/04, 13/11/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Violation of Article 3 (treatment and investigation) and Article 8 - The case concerned three women of Roma origin who complained in particular that they had been sterilised without their full and informed consent, that the authorities’ ensuing investigation into their sterilisation had not been thorough, fair or effective and that their ethnic origin had played a decisive role in their sterilisation

N.B. v. Slovakia, ECtHR, 29518/10, 12/06/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

The applicant claimed she suffered inhumane and degrading treatment, negative impacts on her private and family life, and discrimination based on sex and ethnic origin due to the lack of effective anti-discrimination laws in Slovakia at the time of her sterilization - The Court held that the applicant's rights under Article 3 were violated, and that the State's failure to provide sufficient legal protections for the reproductive health of Roma women violated Article 8

P. and S. v. Poland, ECtHR, 57375/08, 30/10/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Violation of Article 8 (Disclosure of information by public hospital about a pregnant minor who was seeking an abortion after being raped; Medical authorities’ failure to provide timely and unhindered access to lawful abortion to a minor who had become pregnant as a result of rape) - Violation of Article 5 (Placement of pregnant minor in juvenile shelter to prevent her from seeking abortion following rape) - Violation of Article 3 (Harassment of minor by anti-abortion activists as a result of authorities’ actions after she had sought an abortion following rape)

Dissenting / Concurring: Vincent A. De Gaetano

Gelman v. Uruguay, IACtHR, Series C No. 221, 24/02/2011
 | 2011

Forced disappearance of a woman and kidnapping of her daughter during military dictatorship with the child being raised by a Uruguayan policeman and his wife, knowing nothing of her true identity until her paternal grandfather found her decades later - Violation of the right to preservation of identity, and to an effective remedy due to an amnesty law prevent prosecution of authors of serious human rights violations

Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi

C-147/08, CJEU, 10/05/2011
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2011

Occupational pension scheme in the form of a supplementary retirement pension for former employees of a local authority and their survivors – Method of calculating that pension favouring married recipients over those living in a registered life partnership – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

Judge Rapporteur: D. Šváby

C-236/09, CJEU, 01/03/2011
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2011

Fundamental rights, Combating discrimination – Equal treatment for men and women, sex as a factor in the assessment of insurance risks – Private life assurance contracts – Directive 2004/113/EC, Article 5(2), Derogation not subject to any temporal limitation

Judge Rapporteur: E. Juhász

C‑123/10, CJEU, 20/10/2011
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2011

Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security – Exclusion from entitlement to the compensatory supplement of pensioners whose income, including that of the spouse forming part of their household, exceeds that standard amount – Indirect discrimination against women

Judge Rapporteur: A. Prechal

R.R. v. Poland, ECtHR, 27617/04, 26/05/2011
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2011

Lack of access to prenatal genetic tests resulting in an inability to have an abortion on the grounds of foetal abnormality - violation of Article 3 (Degrading treatment/Inhuman treatment)

Dissenting / Concurring: Nicolas Bratza,Vincent A. De Gaetano