Favela Nova Brasilia v. Brazil, IACtHR, Series C No. 333, 16/02/2017
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Execution, torture and sexual assault of, inter alia, young girls, including minors, by police officers during a drug raid, with removal of corpses and obstruction of proper investigation – Violation of the rights to judicial protection, to physical, mental, and moral integrity, to move freely within a state and to a hearing within reasonable time by a competent and independent tribunal

Gutiérrez Hernández et al. v. Guatemala, IACtHR, Series C No. 339, 24/08/2017
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Investigations carried out without due diligence - 'Crime of passion' as a part of a stereotype justifying violence against women and excusing the aggressor's conduct - State's stereotyped assessment of the investigation on the victim's personal relationships and lifestyle - Victim blaming by State agents

OC-24/17, Gender Identity, Equality and Non-Discrimination of Same-Sex Couples: State Obligations Concerning Change of Name, Gender Identity, and Rights Derived from a Relationship between Same-Sex Couples, IACtHR, Series A No. 24, 24/11/2017
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Scope of the rights to a name, to privacy, and to equal protection of the laws under the Pact of San José – Protection of the change of name, and the rectification of public records and identity documents in conformity to an individual’s gender identity – States’ obligation to extend all existing mechanisms, including marriage, to same-sex couples

Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi / Siera Porto

A.H. and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 6033/13, 17/01/2017
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Ban on adoption of Russian children by US nationals - Violation of Article 14

Achim v. Romania, ECtHR, 45959/11, 24/10/2017
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Article 8 (Respect for family life) -Temporary placement of children in care owing to family’s lack of means and parental neglect - No violation

B.V. v. Belgium, ECtHR, 61030/08, 02/05/2017
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

The investigation carried out by the Belgian authorities after the applicant had lodged a criminal complaint alleging rape and indecent assault - A violation of the procedural aspect of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment)

Bayev and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 67667/09, 44092/12, 56717/12, 20/06/2017
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Article 10 (Freedom of expression) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Legislative prohibition on the promotion of homosexuality among minors reinforcing stigma and prejudice and encouraging homophobia - Unjustified difference in treatment between heterosexual majority and homosexual minority

Dissenting / Concurring: Dedov

Laborie v. France, ECtHR, 44024/13, 19/01/2017
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Refusal of the French authorities to transcribe the Ukrainian birth certificates of surrogate-born children into the French register of births

Lashmankin and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 57818/09 + other 14, 07/02/2017
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Article 11 (Freedom of peaceful assembly) Article 13 (Effective remedy) - Arbitrary and discriminatory power of authorities to propose changes in location, time or manner of conduct of a public event - Lack of effective remedy allowing an enforceable judicial decision against authorities’ refusal to approve the location, time or manner of conduct of a public event before its planned date

Paradiso and Campanelli v. Italy, ECtHR, 25358/12, 24/01/2017 [GC]
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2017

Article 8 - The case concerned applicants who, acting outside any standard adoption procedure, had brought to Italy from abroad a child who had no biological tie with either parent, and who had been conceived, according to the domestic courts, through assisted reproduction techniques that were unlawful under Italian law

Dissenting / Concurring: Raimondi, Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, Ledi Bianku, Julia Laffranque, Paul Lemmens, Yonko Grozev

I.V. v. Bolivia, IACtHR, Series C No. 329, 30/11/2016
 | 2016

Forced sterilization of an immigrant woman from Peru during a caesarean section without her prior and informed consent - Court's recognition of the impact of gendered power relations on dignity, suffering, health and the enjoyment of women's sexual and reproductive rights - Discrimination in access to health affects women’s freedom to decide freely on their bodies and their reproductive health - Violation of the right to non-discrimination, to personal freedom and integrity, dignity, private and family life, access to information and founding a family

Dissenting / Concurring: Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot

C‑335/15, CJEU, 14/07/2016
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2016

Measures to improve the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding — National law providing for an allowance for ordinary magistrates in respect of expenses which they incur in the performance of their professional functions — No entitlement for an ordinary magistrate to that allowance in the case of compulsory maternity leave taken prior to 1 January 2005

Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan

225/2016, CC, 05/10/2016
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2016

Possibility of weighing, in the specific case, whether it is in the best interests of the minor child to maintain meaningful relations with the biological parent's ex-partner [in particular, following the termination of the homo-affective cohabitation between them]