Sexual harassment in the workplace - Harassment attributed to the hierarchical superior
Compulsory maternity leave - Deteriorating working and personal situation - Obligation to work in unlivable conditions in a degraded place
Same-sex couple - Marriage contracted abroad by two same-sex Italian citizens - Impossibility of registering in Italy a marriage contracted abroad between same-sex people
Prohibition of In Vitro Fertilisation violates the right to privacy and family life, personal liberty and integrity, and to non-discrimination
Dissenting / Concurring: García-Sayán, Vio Grossi
Mother in a same-sex relationship denied custody of her children – Violation of the right to privacy under Article 11(2) of the American Convention – The right to privacy includes the protection of intimate relationships
Dissenting / Concurring: Pérez Pérez
Denial by national courts to a single father of the rights to custody, visitation and opposition to the adoption of his biological daughter, surrendered by her mother to a married couple upon birth - Stereotypes about the single father's unfitness for taking care of her child - Violation of the right to a hearing within a reasonable time and the right to family
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
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
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
The German courts’ refusal to allow a man to challenge another man’s paternity - No violation
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Ineffective investigation into possible racist motivation for ill-treatment allegedly suffered by Nigerian prostitute
Sterilisation without permission and the low amount of compensation - Violation of Article 8
Refusal of simple adoption order in favour of homosexual partner of biological mother - No violation of Article 14
Dissenting / Concurring: Mark Villiger / Jean-Paul Costa, Dean Spielmann, Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre
Article 3 (+ Article 14) - Discrimination - Failure to conduct effective investigation into whether assault by private party was a hate crime motivated by homophobia
Dissenting / Concurring: Myjer / Gyulumyan, Ziemele
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
Refusal of permission to adopt owing to prohibition of adoption in child’s country of birth - No violation of Article 8
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
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)
Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 11 (freedom of assembly) – Excessive use of force by the police during a peaceful demonstration – Obligation to respect fundamental rights by public authorities in the context of public demonstrations
The German courts’ refusal to allow a man to challenge another man’s paternity - No violation