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

Anayo v. Germany, ECtHR, 20578/07, 21/12/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Refusal of German courts to allow the applicant to see his biological children, twins, with whom he had never lived - Violation of Article 8

Chavdarov v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 3465/03, 21/12/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Inability of biological father to establish in law his paternity of children born to a married woman with whom he had been cohabiting - No violation

Neulinger and Shuruk v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 41615/07, 06/07/2010 [GC]
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

A Swiss mother, fearing her son would be taken abroad by his father, fled Israel to Switzerland, but the Swiss Federal Court later ordered her to return the child to Israel - There would be a violation of Article 8

Dissenting / Concurring: Boštjan M. Zupančič/Giorgio Malinverni, Ireneu Cabral Barreto, Peer Lorenzen, Zdravka Kalaydjieva

Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia, ECtHR, 25965/04, 07/01/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) and Article 2 (Effective investigation) - Failure by Cyprus to establish suitable framework to combat trafficking in human beings or to take operational measures to protect victims and failure by Russia to conduct effective investigation into recruitment of a young woman on its territory by traffickers - Failure by Cypriot authorities to conduct effective homicide investigation, in particular, as regards securing relevant evidence abroad under international convention for mutual assistance