The custody rights of a mother who had temporarily entrusted the child to her parents-in-law - The applicant complained in particular of the refusal of the domestic courts to order her in-laws to return her son to her and argued that the authorities had not taken the necessary steps to facilitate reunion with her minor son - Violation of Article 8
Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) - Trafficking of a young Bulgarian girl in Italy not supported by sufficient evidence - Inadmissible
Dissenting / Concurring: Kalaydjieva
The applicant, as Christian, complained that his return to Iraq would involve a violation of Article 3 of the Convention
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Absence of any legal requirement for newspapers to give advance notice before publishing details of a person’s private life - No violation
Unjustified refusal to recognise the adoption of an adult by his uncle, a monk - Violation of Article 8
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
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
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
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
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
Article 2 (Positive obligations) - Absence of provision in criminal law to sanction involuntary termination of pregnancy - No violation
Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) - Ill-treatment of a woman by Turkish police officers during detention
Dissenting / Concurring: Sajó
Equal treatment for male and female workers –Right to leave for employed mothers – Possible use by an employed mother or an employed father
Judge Rapporteur: P. Lindh
Civil service, contract staff — Family allowances, same-sex couple, household allowance, condition for granting — Access to legal marriage
Judge Rapporteur: H. Tagaras
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
Maternity allowance - Right of the self-employed father to receive maternity allowance in place of the biological mother - Alleged unjustified unequal treatment between self-employed fathers and mothers and between self-employed and employed fathers
Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people
Protection of female workers – Maternity allowance – Alleged violation of the principles of maternity and child protection and the principle of the protection of working mothers
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
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