R.R. v. Poland, ECtHR, 27617/04, 26/05/2011
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2011

Lack of access to prenatal genetic tests resulting in an inability to have an abortion on the grounds of foetal abnormality - violation of Article 3 (Degrading treatment/Inhuman treatment)

Dissenting / Concurring: Nicolas Bratza,Vincent A. De Gaetano

S.H. and Others v. Austria, ECtHR, 57813/00, 03/11/2011 [GC]
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2011

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Prohibition under domestic law on the use of ova and sperm from donors for in vitro fertilisation - No violation

Dissenting / Concurring: Françoise Tulkens, Päivi Hirvelä, Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, Nona Tsotsoria

Schneider v. Germany, ECtHR, 17080/07, 15/09/2011
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2011

Refusal of German courts to allow the applicant to have contact with a boy who, he claimed, was his biological son - The child’s legitimate father was married to the mother - Violation of Article 8

Stasi v. France, ECtHR, 25001/07, 20/10/2011
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2011

Article 3 - The applicant alleges in particular that he was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment by other detainees while in detention, and considers that the authorities failed to take the necessary measures to protect him from this - 

Dissenting / Concurring: Spielmann, Nußberger

V.C. v. SLOVAKIA, ECtHR, 18968/07, 8/11/2011
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2011

The allegation of a Slovak woman of Roma ethnic origin that she had
been the victim of forced sterilisation - A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) - A violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)

Dissenting / Concurring: Ljiljana Mijović

F‑86/09, CJEU, 14/10/2010
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2010

Civil service, contract staff — Family allowances, same-sex couple, household allowance, condition for granting — Access to legal marriage

Judge Rapporteur: H. Tagaras

138/2010, CC, 14/04/2010
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2010

Same-sex future spouses’ request seeking to obtain publication of notice of their intention to marriage - Refusal of the civil registrar since Italian legal system makes no provision for marriage between individuals of the same sex on the grounds that this would be contrary to public order - Refusal to allow persons of homosexual orientation to contract marriage with persons of the same sex

97/2010, CC,08/03/2010
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2010

Prohibition on cryopreservation of supernumerary embryos - Admissibility of cryopreservation of embryos until the date of transfer only for serious and documented force majeure relating to the woman's health

Fernández Ortega and Others v. Mexico, IACtHR, Series C No. 215, 30/08/2010
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Torture and rape of an indigenous woman by military personnel - State's failure to comply with due diligence to investigate and punish the perpetrators - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to personal integrity, dignity, to private life, to judicial protection and to an effective remedy

Dissenting / Concurring: Espinosa

Rosendo Cantú and Others v. Mexico, IACtHR, Series C No. 216, 31/08/2010
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Rape of an indigenous girl by members of the army - Ineffective investigations - State's failure to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women – Violation of the obligation of non-discrimination in accessing justice

Dissenting / Concurring: Abreu Blondet / Espinosa

Xákmok Kásek Indigenous Community. v. Paraguay, IACtHR, Series C No. 214, 24/08/2010
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

State's inability to recover ancestral property belonging to the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community - Lack of access to property and possession threatening the survival of the community, resulting in nutritional, medical and health vulnerability of its members, particularly pregnant women, children, and the elderly - Violation of the right to judicial protection, to life, to personal integrity, to non-discrimination, to property as well as children rights

Judge Rapporteur: Discrimination against women, gender-based violence, property

Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi / Fogel Pedrozo

A, B and C v. Ireland, ECtHR, 25579/05, 16/12/2010 [GC]
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

The complaint by three women that the restrictions on abortion in Ireland stigmatised and humiliated them, risked damaging their health, and, in the third applicant’s case, even her life - violation of Article 8 (right to private and family life) in respect of the third applicant

Dissenting / Concurring: Christos Rozakis, Françoise Tulkens, Elisabet Fura, Päivi Hirvelä,Giorgio Malinverni, Mihai Poalelungi / Luis López Guerra, Josep Casadevall, Mary Finlay Geoghegan