S.H. and Others v. Austria, ECtHR, 57813/00, 03/11/2011 [GC]
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2011

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Prohibition under domestic law on the use of ova and sperm from donors for in vitro fertilisation - No violation

Dissenting / Concurring: Françoise Tulkens, Päivi Hirvelä, Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, Nona Tsotsoria

Costa and Pavan v. Italy, ECtHR, 54270/10, 28/08/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2011

Ban preventing healthy carriers of cystic fibrosis from screening embryos for in vitro fertilisation, despite existence of right to therapeutic abortion in domestic law - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for private life)

V.C. v. SLOVAKIA, ECtHR, 18968/07, 8/11/2011
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2011

The allegation of a Slovak woman of Roma ethnic origin that she had
been the victim of forced sterilisation - A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) - A violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)

Dissenting / Concurring: Ljiljana Mijović

F‑86/09, CJEU, 14/10/2010
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2010

Civil service, contract staff — Family allowances, same-sex couple, household allowance, condition for granting — Access to legal marriage

Judge Rapporteur: H. Tagaras

138/2010, CC, 14/04/2010
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2010

Same-sex future spouses’ request seeking to obtain publication of notice of their intention to marriage - Refusal of the civil registrar since Italian legal system makes no provision for marriage between individuals of the same sex on the grounds that this would be contrary to public order - Refusal to allow persons of homosexual orientation to contract marriage with persons of the same sex

Fernández Ortega and Others v. Mexico, IACtHR, Series C No. 215, 30/08/2010
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Torture and rape of an indigenous woman by military personnel - State's failure to comply with due diligence to investigate and punish the perpetrators - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to personal integrity, dignity, to private life, to judicial protection and to an effective remedy

Dissenting / Concurring: Espinosa

Rosendo Cantú and Others v. Mexico, IACtHR, Series C No. 216, 31/08/2010
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Rape of an indigenous girl by members of the army - Ineffective investigations - State's failure to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women – Violation of the obligation of non-discrimination in accessing justice

Dissenting / Concurring: Abreu Blondet / Espinosa

Xákmok Kásek Indigenous Community. v. Paraguay, IACtHR, Series C No. 214, 24/08/2010
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

State's inability to recover ancestral property belonging to the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community - Lack of access to property and possession threatening the survival of the community, resulting in nutritional, medical and health vulnerability of its members, particularly pregnant women, children, and the elderly - Violation of the right to judicial protection, to life, to personal integrity, to non-discrimination, to property as well as children rights

Judge Rapporteur: Discrimination against women, gender-based violence, property

Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi / Fogel Pedrozo

A, B and C v. Ireland, ECtHR, 25579/05, 16/12/2010 [GC]
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

The complaint by three women that the restrictions on abortion in Ireland stigmatised and humiliated them, risked damaging their health, and, in the third applicant’s case, even her life - violation of Article 8 (right to private and family life) in respect of the third applicant

Dissenting / Concurring: Christos Rozakis, Françoise Tulkens, Elisabet Fura, Päivi Hirvelä,Giorgio Malinverni, Mihai Poalelungi / Luis López Guerra, Josep Casadevall, Mary Finlay Geoghegan

Schwizgebel v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 25762/07, 10/06/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Unmarried woman of a certain age debarred from adopting a second child - No violation of Article 14

151/2009, CC, 01/04/2009
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2009

Medically Assisted Procreation - Possibility of an implantation of up to a maximum of three embryos - The cryopreservation of the embryos is permitted only if the transfer of the embryos into the uterus is not possible due to serious and documented reasons of force majeure relating to the health of the woman which were not foreseeable at the time of fertilisation 

10741, CSC, 11/05/2009
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2009

Possibility of voluntary termination of pregnancy - Requirements to perform therapeutic abortion - Failure to inform of possible foetus’ malformations

24653, CSC, 27/05/2009
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2009

Sexual offences committed abroad by an Italian citizen against a foreign citizen – Letters rogatory abroad

González and Others ('Cotton Field') v. Mexico, IACtHR, Series C No. 205, 16/11/2009
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Disappearance, torture, rape, brutal mutilation and death of three young women in cotton field in a context of insecurity and violence, especially against women - Violation of the right to life, to humane treatment, to personal liberty as well as the duty to investigate, prevent and punish violence against women

Dissenting / Concurring: García-Sayan / Medina Quiroga

Las Dos Erres Massacre v. Guatemala, IACtHR, Series C No. 211, 24/11/2009
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Rape and forced abortion by inhuman treatment of women and girls in the context of the extrajudicial execution of 251 members of the Las Dos Erres community by the Guatemalan armed forces - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to dignity and of the duty to investigate, prevent and punish acts of violence against women

Judge Rapporteur: Sexual violence, forced abortion, ill-treatment discrimination against women, intersectionality

Dissenting / Concurring: Cadena Rámila

Perozo and Others v. Venezuela, Series C No. 195, 28/01/2009
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Harassment, persecution, physical and verbal attacks against people linked to a television station because of their exercise of their freedom of expression, including twelve women targets of gendered attacks –Intimidating statements made by government officials in a context of high social polarization and conflict – Violation of the right to freedom of expression and to effective investigations

Dissenting / Concurring: Paceri Scaramuzza