Legitimate children’s surname – Automatic attribution of the father’s surname even if desired otherwise by the parents - Impossibility for the spouses to agree to attribute mother’s surname to their child
Violent attacks, humiliation, physical and psychological abuse, denial of medical care and isolation of 135 female prison inmates - Violation of the right to personal liberty, to humane treatment, to judicial protection, to a fair trial, and violation of the duty to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trindade / García Ramirez
Extrajudicial killing of four men, including two minors - Violation of the right to life, to humane treatment, to personal liberty, to a fair trial, to judicial protection, and, as regards the two minors, the rights of the child - Court's order to make institutional and social reforms, including designing a public awareness campaign to protect children from violence and creating mechanisms to ensure due process in cases of child executions
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trindade
Article 8 (Respect for family life) - No specific remedy for preventing or punishing child abduction from the territory of the respondent State, resulting in non-enforcement of custody award
Impossibility to challenge in court the legal presumption of paternity - Impossibility of introducing an action for disavowal of paternity - Article 14 taken in conjunction with Articles 6 and 8
Equal pay for men and women – Illness arising prior to maternity leave, pregnancy-related illness, person subject to the general sick-leave scheme – Effect on pay, absence offset against the maximum total number of days of paid sick leave over a specified period)
Judge Rapporteur: C. Gulmann
Equal treatment for men and women – Prohibition of the employment of women in underground work in mining or in a high-pressure atmosphere or in diving work
Judge Rapporteur: N. Colneric
Gang rape criminal offence – Applicabilty of the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences
Maternity allowance in the case of adopted children – Possibility of maternity allowance limited to the mother with exclusion of the father - Unequal treatment
Adoption – Adopted person’s access to information concerning his or her origins – Access to the identity of the biological mother having declared at birth she did not wish to disclose her identity
Refusal to provide copies of birth certificates requested by two girls born in the Dominican Republic to Dominican mothers by local officials as part of a deliberate policy to deny documents to Dominicans of Haitian descent, resulting in the girls being refused their nationality, not being able to go to school, and facing other serious problems – Violation of the right to equality and non-discrimination, to protection measures, to nationality, to having a legal status and a name, and to be part of a political community
Judge Rapporteur: Discrimination against women, girls, birth certificate, intersectionality
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trinidade
Article 8 (Respect for private life) Article 6 (Fair hearing/Equality of arms) Article 7 (Nullum crimen sine lege) - Criminal conviction for certain sadomasochistic practices with others
Transsexual partner not entitled to a survivor's pension payable solely to a surviving spouse − Discrimination on grounds of sex
Judge Rapporteur: J.N. Cunha Rodrigues
Principle of equal pay for men and women – Concept of pay – Taking into account, for calculation of termination payments, of periods of military service – Possibility of comparing workers performing military service with women workers who, after their maternity leave, take parental leave the duration of which is not taken into account for calculating a termination payment
Judge Rapporteur: J.-P. Puissochet
Poor conditions in a detention centre for young people with fires killing nine detainees and injuring many - Violation of the right to judicial protection and to humane treatment given the atmosphere of violence, danger, abuse and mistrust - Violation of the right to life in combination with children's rights in failing to preventing the fire
Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trindade
Rape and ill-treatment of twenty girls and young women in the context of the massacre of 268 people, mainly indigenous Mayans, as part of genocidal counter-insurgence state policy against indigenous people – Denial of justice, intimidation and discrimination to the detriment of the survivors and the next of kin of the victims
Dissenting / Concurring: García Ramírez / Cançado Trinidade
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Transsexual denied legal recognition of her gender change and refused retirement pension from the age applicable to other women
The applicant complained that, if expelled to Iran, he would face a real risk of treatment contrary to Article 3 of the Convention on account of his sexual orientation - Inadmissible
Work leave in case of adoption or foster care within the first year of the child's life, instead of within the first year of the child's entry into the family – Infringement of the principle of equality by treating adoptive or foster parents and adopted or foster children less favourably than natural parents and children
Substitute teaching conferred during the period of compulsory maternity leave - Exclusion of maternity allowance - Alleged unequal treatment, infringing the right to remuneration and the principle of impartiality