Sexual violence and sexual acts with a minor – Regarding child sexual assault, the second interview of the offended parties must be limited to exceptional cases
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
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
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
Ban on adoption of Russian children by US nationals - Violation of Article 14
Article 8 (Positive obligations and Respect for private life) - Legal requirements for rectification of civil status for transgender persons
Dissenting / Concurring: Ranzoni
Article 8 (Respect for family life) -Temporary placement of children in care owing to family’s lack of means and parental neglect - No violation
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)
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
Refusal of the authorities of the Ministry of Justice to bear the cost of the applicant’s gender reassignment despite medical evidence of urgently needed treatment
Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 8 - Refusal to grant a paternity leave to the partner of the mother
Refusal of the French authorities to transcribe the Ukrainian birth certificates of surrogate-born children into the French register of births
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
Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to register same-sex marriages contracted abroad
Dissenting / Concurring: Pejchal, Wojtyczek / Koskelo
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
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Different-sex couple denied access to registered partnership reserved exclusively for same-sex couples - No violation
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
Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and age — Payment of a survivor’s benefit to the civil partner — Partnership contracted before the 60th birthday of the member of the scheme
Judge Rapporteur: R. Silva de Lapuerta
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
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]