16754, CSC, 02/10/2012
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2012

Voluntary termination of pregnancy – Newborn’s right to compensation for damages resulting from his malformed birth - Compensation for so-called ‘damage from unwanted birth’ due to a doctor's error

Gudiel Álvarez and Others ('Diario Militar') v. Guatemala, IACtHR, Series C No. 253, 20/11/2012
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Forced disappearance of 26 people registered in a 'military diary' between 1983-1985 in the context of an internal conflict - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to judicial protection, to personal integrity, and to freedom of association

Massacres of El Mozote and Nearby Places v. El Salvador, IACtHR, Series C No. 252, 25/10/2012
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Series of massive, collective and indiscriminate executions of civilians and attacks to their properties conducted by the Salvadorian Armed Forces - Ineffective investigations - State's failure to protect the civilian population, especially children and women being at greater risk and vulnerability - Violation of the right to life, to humane treatment, to private property, and to an effective remedy

Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi / García-Sayán

Río Negro Massacres v. Guatemala, IACtHR, Series C No. 250, 4/09/2012
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Forced disappearances, murders, inhumane treatment and sexual violence against women in the context of the massacres against members of Río Negro community perpetrated by the Army of Guatemala and members of the Civilian Self-Defense Patrols - Violation of freedom from slavery, freedom of association, movement and residence, conscience and religion, the right to humane treatment, to life, to a fair trial, and to judicial protection

Ahrens v. Germany, ECtHR, 45071/09, 22/03/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

The German courts’ refusal to allow a man to challenge another man’s paternity - No violation

Godelli v. Italy, ECtHR, 33783/09, 25/09/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Inability of child abandoned at birth to gain access to non-identifying information or to make request for mother to waive confidentiality - Violation of Article 8

Dissenting / Concurring: András Sajó

Harroudj v. France, ECtHR, 43631/09, 04/10/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Refusal of permission to adopt owing to prohibition of adoption in child’s country of birth - No violation of Article 8

I.G. and Others v. Slovakia, ECtHR, 15966/04, 13/11/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

Violation of Article 3 (treatment and investigation) and Article 8 - The case concerned three women of Roma origin who complained in particular that they had been sterilised without their full and informed consent, that the authorities’ ensuing investigation into their sterilisation had not been thorough, fair or effective and that their ethnic origin had played a decisive role in their sterilisation

I.G. v. the Republic of Moldova, ECtHR, 53519/07, 15/05/2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2012

A Moldovan national alleged that, at the age of fourteen, she was raped by an acquaintance, she complained that the authorities had not investigated her allegations effectively and that the requirement of corroborative evidence of resistance had been discriminatory against her - Violation of Article 3 (investigation)