15734, CSC, 13/01/2023
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2023

Persecutory acts [the so-called stalking] - Notion of harassment relevant to the crime of stalking - Creation of an intimidating and hostile climate capable of compromising the offended person's peace of mind and psychological freedom

18522, CSC, 28/06/2023
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2023

Indirect discrimination not to employ a woman for reasons of physical unfitness due to short stature – Recruitment requirements in contrast to the principle of equality not taking into account the existence of the height difference generally found between men and women

23527, CSC, 02/08/2023
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2023

Rejection of the registration in Italy of the birth certificate of a child – conceived through recourse to heterologous medically assisted reproduction and born in Italy - naming the intended parent as the child's parent - The legislator has restricted access to heterologous medically assisted reproduction to situations of pathological infertility, which does not include same-sex couples

37978, CSC, 03/07/2023
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2023

Protection of women against all forms of violence – Family abuse - Repeated behaviour aimed at physically or psychologically damaging the dignity and identity of the offended person by restricting her self-determination

4572, CSC, 13/01/2023
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2023

Restraining order applicable when cohabitation between the defendant and the victim is no longer in place - Attempt to violently restore cohabitation may constitute grounds for imposing a restraining order

5352, CSC, 28/09/2023
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2023

Protection of victims of domestic and gender-based violence - Suspended sentence granted to the defendant on account of his participation in specific rehabilitation programmes at qualified institutions or associations

Córdoba v. Paraguay, IACtHR, Series C No. 505, 4/09/2023
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2023

Illicit removal of a child habitually resident in Argentina, relocated by the taking parent to Paraguay without the father's consent - Violation of the duty of due diligence for failing to locate for nine years a child regularly attending school and receiving public health care - Violation of the right to personal integrity for putting the applicant in a permanent state of anguish - Violation of the obligation to respect the rights and freedoms without any discrimination

Dissenting / Concurring: Pérez Manrique, Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot, Mudrovitsch / Sierra Porto, Hernándz López, Pérez Goldberg

María et al. v. Argentina, IACtHR, Series C No. 494, 22/08/2023
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2023

Pregnant adolescent encouraged to give her unborn child up for adoption by health professionals on the basis of gendered stereotypes concerning her unsuitability to find a partner to form a family should the child be kept by her – Authorization to adopt the baby signed by the mother without any assisting lawyer in a document directed to the Provincial Direction for the Promotion of the Rights of the Child, Adolescent and the Family – Violation of the rights to equality, family life, judicial guarantees, judicial protection, physical integrity, live free from violence, and the rights of the child

Members of the Corporation Lawyers Collective 'José Alvear Restrepo' (CAJAR) v. Colombia, IACtHR, Series C No 506, 18/10/2023
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2023

Systematic persecution of the Colombian State against members of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective Corporation through harassment, threats, killings, disappearances and physical violence from the 1990s amounts to a violation of the rights to life, personal integrity, privacy, judicial protection, freedom of association, free movement, family protection, children’s rights and defending human rights - Gendered and sexual threats against women human rights defenders particularly targeted because of their gender, including reference to possible sexual violence against them or their daughters

Dissenting / Concurring: Hernández López / Mudrovitsch / Pérez Goldberg