Recruitment of hundreds of female and male workers from low-income communities to work in a privately-owned cattle ranch with the promise of good salaries followed by forced labor and servitude, inhumane working and deplorable living conditions, including withholding of wages, threats and violence under the constant vigilance by armed guards - Violation of the right to freedom from slavery and trafficking, to judicial protection, and to effective remedy
Dissenting / Concurring: Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot / Vio Grossi / Sierra Porto
Illegal and arbitrary detention, and killing of women human rights defenders in a context of systematic gendered violence - Violation of the right to life, to dignity, and to freedom and security
Dissenting / Concurring: Ferrer Mac Gregor-Poisot / Vio Grossi
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Difference in rights to retrospective survivor’s pension between same-sex couples and unmarried different-sex couples - No violation
Dissenting / Concurring: Keller
Articles 12 and 14 - The applicants considered that the limitation of marriage to persons of different sexes constitutes a discriminatory infringement of the right to marry - No violation
Legislation preventing health professionals assisting with home births - No violation
Refusal by French authorities to transcribe the birth certificates of children born under surrogacy agreements in India violated the children's right to respect for private life under Article 8
Article 8 (Respect for family life) - Refusal to order child’s return pursuant to Hague Convention in view of abducting mother’s unwillingness to return with child
Article (Freedom of expression) - Seizure and confiscation for more than five years of all copies of edition of a magazine containing article on “pornography”
Parental authority of father with mild intellectual disability restricted on insufficiently demonstrated grounds - Violation of Article 8
Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) - Shortcomings in response to criminal complaint of human-trafficking
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Failure to take into account possible discriminatory motives in investigation of homophobic attack
Dissenting / Concurring: Myjer
Change of recognised paternity at request and in favour of biological father without child’s consent - No violation
Article 5 - The applicant alleged that his detention had been unjustified, a situation not remedied by adequate judicial supervision
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Discrimination between unmarried same-sex couples and unmarried different-sex couples in obtaining family reunification
The applicant claimed asylum as she had partially undergone FGM and claimed to be at risk of re-excision if sent back to Guinea - No violation
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to grant a residence permit for family reasons to a foreign same-sex partner
Dissenting / Concurring: Bianku / Sicilianos
Article 10 (freedom of expression) and Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association) – Unlawful dismissal of the applicant from her public sector job due to her political affiliations – Insufficiently justified dismissal disproportionately interfering with her rights
Dissenting / Concurring: Kjølbro
Technical requirements relating to blood and blood components, blood donation — Eligibility criteria for blood donors, persons whose sexual behaviour puts them at a high risk of acquiring severe infectious diseases that can be transmitted by blood — Man who has had sexual relations with another man
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Equal treatment of male and female workers, part-time workers, primarily female — National legislation providing for a maximum amount of unemployment benefit — Legislation referring, for the purposes of the calculation of that amount, to the relationship between the working hours of the part-time employees concerned and the working hours of full-time employees
Judge Rapporteur: A. Prechal
Individual right to parental leave on the grounds of the birth of a child — National legislation denying the right to such leave for a staff member whose wife does not work — Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan