26456, CSC, 09/06/2022
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2022

Persecutory acts – The offence of persecutory acts is also committed in the case of indirect harassment - Communications of a harassing or threatening nature directed to recipients other than the offended person, but linked to the latter by a qualified relationship of proximity

38336, CSC, 28/09/2022
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2022

Family abuse - Definition of the concept of ‘cohabitation’ is required to establish the crime family abuse - Cohabitation is a deep-rooted and stable affective relationship characterised by a lasting living together in the same place

6937, CSC, 20/10/2022
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2022

Family abuse - Repeated acts of physical or moral harassment - Habitual abuse by the defendant resulting in harassing and humiliating behaviour, which lasted for years and served to build a domestic life system that was no longer tolerable

Angulo Losada v. Bolivia, IACtHR, Series C No. 475, 18/11/2022
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Adolescent repeatedly raped by her adult cousin – Ineffective remedies due to domestic authorities’ stereotyped preconceptions as to the applicant as complicit in her own abuse  –  Lack of an intersectional gender and childhood perspective in conducting the criminal process without avoiding revictimization – Violation of the duty of strict and enhanced due diligence and of the special protection required in a complaint of sexual violation against a girl  –  Violation of the rights to humane treatment, a fair trial, equality before the law, private and family life, of the child and judicial protection – Revictimizing attitude materialising in forensic exams conducted improperly with potential secondary harm to the applicant and interviews repeated on multiple occasions during the investigations leading to increased distress

Brítez Arce et al. v. Argentina, IACtHR, Serie C No. 474, 16/11/2022
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Obstetric violence as a form of gender-based violence - States' obligation to prevent, punish and refrain from practicing obstetric violence as well as to provide adequate, specialized and differentiated health services during pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth to guarantee the mother's right to health

Dissenting / Concurring: Sierra Porto / Pérez Goldberg

Pavez Pavez v. Chile, IACtHR, Series C No. 449, 4/2/2022
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Revocation of the certification to teach Catholicism after having entered a same-sex relationship in violation of Catholic canon law - Violation of the right to equality and non-discrimination, the right to privacy, and the right to work - Court's order to institute a concrete judicial review procedure to allow state officials to carry out a control of the religious authorities’ assessment of suitability of religious teachers serving in public schools

Dissenting / Concurring: Sierra Porto

A and Others v. Iceland, ECtHR, 25133/20, 31856/20, 15/11/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Decision depriving parents of custody of their children due to inability to properly care for them and children’s wishes to remain in foster care, within State’s margin of appreciation - No violation

A.D. and Others v. Georgia, ECtHR, 57864/17, 1/12/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Private life) - Transgender men unable to obtain legal recognition of their gender without having undergone medical procedures to change their sex characteristics, due to imprecision of legal framework - Domestic authorities’ failure to provide quick, transparent and accessible procedures for legal gender recognition

A.L. v. France, ECtHR, 13344/20, 07/04/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Refusal by domestic courts to legally establish the applicant's paternity with regard to his biological son, born from surrogacy carried out in France, after having been entrusted by the surrogate mother to a third-party couple - Violation of Article 8

A.M. v. Norway, ECtHR, 30254/18, 24/03/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Article 8 and Article 14 (+ Article 8) - Private life applicable - Lack of legal recognition of parenthood to intended mother with no biological ties to a child born through a gestational surrogacy arrangement abroad

Dissenting / Concurring: Ivana Jelić/O’Leary

C.E. and Others v. France, ECtHR, 29775/18, 29693/19, 24/03/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Inability to obtain recognition of legal parent-child relationship between child and biological mother’s former female partner

Callamand v. France, ECtHR, 2338/20, 07/04/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Rejection of the applicant’s request for contact rights with her former spouse’s child, who had been conceived by medically assisted procreation - Violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)

D.M. and N. v. Italy, ECtHR, 60083/19, 20/01/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Adoption procedure initiated by the authorities in breach of the mother’s and her child’s right to respect for family life - Evaluation of the alleged mother's inability to fulfil her parental duties based on stereotyped assumptions concerning gender roles and her sexual life

 

Dissenting / Concurring: sexual expression, discrimination against women, adoption

Drelon v. France, ECtHR, 3153/16, 08/09/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Article 8 (Private life) - Collection of data on sexual behaviour of potential blood donor based on speculation, and excessive length of data retention by public body - Applicant deferred from blood donation on basis of law requiring contraindication for men who had had sexual intercourse with another man

G.M. and Others v. the Republic of Moldova, ECtHR, 44394/15, 22/11/2022
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2022

Ineffective investigation into allegations of forced abortions and forced contraception after rape by a doctor in a neuropsychiatric residential asylum of three intellectually disabled applicants with legal capacity - Respondent State's failure to establish and apply effectively a system protecting intellectually disabled women in psychiatric institutions against serious breaches of their integrity - Inadequate criminal legislation and lack of mechanisms to prevent such abuse