24653, CSC, 27/05/2009
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2009

Sexual offences committed abroad by an Italian citizen against a foreign citizen – Letters rogatory abroad

González and Others ('Cotton Field') v. Mexico, IACtHR, Series C No. 205, 16/11/2009
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Disappearance, torture, rape, brutal mutilation and death of three young women in cotton field in a context of insecurity and violence, especially against women - Violation of the right to life, to humane treatment, to personal liberty as well as the duty to investigate, prevent and punish violence against women

Dissenting / Concurring: García-Sayan / Medina Quiroga

Las Dos Erres Massacre v. Guatemala, IACtHR, Series C No. 211, 24/11/2009
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Rape and forced abortion by inhuman treatment of women and girls in the context of the extrajudicial execution of 251 members of the Las Dos Erres community by the Guatemalan armed forces - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to dignity and of the duty to investigate, prevent and punish acts of violence against women

Judge Rapporteur: Sexual violence, forced abortion, ill-treatment discrimination against women, intersectionality

Dissenting / Concurring: Cadena Rámila

Perozo and Others v. Venezuela, Series C No. 195, 28/01/2009
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Harassment, persecution, physical and verbal attacks against people linked to a television station because of their exercise of their freedom of expression, including twelve women targets of gendered attacks –Intimidating statements made by government officials in a context of high social polarization and conflict – Violation of the right to freedom of expression and to effective investigations

Dissenting / Concurring: Paceri Scaramuzza

Ríos et and Others v. Venezuela, IACtHR, Series C No. 194, 28/01/2009
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Harassment, persecution, physical and verbal attacks against people linked to a television channel, including women targeted because of their gender – Intimidating statements made by government officials in a context of high social polarization and conflict – Violation of the right to freedom of expression and to effective investigations

Dissenting / Concurring: Paceri Scaramuzza

Cengiz Kılıç v. Turkey, ECtHR, 16192/06, 06/12/2011
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Inability of a father to exercise his contact rights in relation to his son during the course of divorce proceedings - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for family life) 

K.H. and Others v. Slovakia, ECtHR, 32881/04, 28/04/2009
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Former patients prevented from photocopying their medical records - Applicants’ inability to effectively present their case due to authorities’ refusal to grant them access to decisive evidence - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) and 6 (Access to court)

Dissenting / Concurring: Ján Šikuta

Schlumpf v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 29002/06, 08/01/2009
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Article 6 (Fair hearing/Public hearing) Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to hear expert evidence in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with sex-change operation and lack of public hearing in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with sex-change operation - Balancing of competing interests of applicant and her insurers in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with a sex-change operation

Dissenting / Concurring: Vajić, Jebens

Women On Waves and Others v. Portugal, ECtHR, 31276/05, 03/02/2009
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Refusal to allow into territorial waters vessel chartered for use in support of campaign for decriminalisation of voluntary termination of pregnancy - Violation of Article 10

Zaunegger v. Germany, ECtHR, 22028/04, 03/12/2009
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2009

Violation of Article 14 (discrimination) - Inability of father of a child born out of wedlock to obtain joint custody without the mother’s consent - The applicant had been treated differently from mothers or from married or divorced fathers in that he had required his former partner's consent to joint custody

Dissenting / Concurring: Bertram Schmitt

C-506/06, CJEU, 26/02/2008
Court: Court of Justice of the European Union
 | 2008

Directive 92/85/EEC, Measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding – Meaning of ‘pregnant worker’; prohibition of dismissal of pregnant workers during the period from the beginning of their pregnancy to the end of the maternity leave − Woman dismissed where, at the date she was given notice of her dismissal, her ova had been fertilised in vitro, but not yet transferred to her uterus

Judge Rapporteur: A. Ó Caoimh

E.B. v. France, ECtHR, 43546/02, 22/1/2008 [GC]
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2008

Refusal to grant approval for the purposes of adoption, on the ground of the applicant’s lifestyle as a lesbian living with another woman - The Court considered that the reference to the applicant's homosexuality had been, if not explicit, at least implicit, and that the influence of the applicant’s avowed homosexuality on the assessment of her application had been established and, having regard to the foregoing, had been a decisive factor in the decision to refuse her authorisation to adopt - The domestic authorities had made a distinction based on considerations regarding her sexual orientation, a distinction that was unacceptable under the Convention

Dissenting / Concurring: Jean-Paul Costa, Riza Türmen, Mindia Ugrekhelidze, Danutė Jočienė, Boštjan Zupančič, Loukis Loucaides, Antonella Mularoni / Peer Lorenzen, Sverre Erik Jebens