Distinction between persecutory acts and harassment - Persecutory acts cause the victim a persistent and severe state of anxiety or alteration of his or her life habits - Harassment as acts aimed at annoying the victim
Using the derogatory epithets ‘frocio’ and ‘disgusting’ against a person constitutes defamation - Injury to personal identity - Prohibition of discrimination
Human trafficking - Profiting from the victims' situation of vulnerability, physical and psychological inferiority and need - Exploitation of prostitution and exposure of victims to serious danger to life and bodily harm
Verification of indirect gender discrimination by the employer in the selection process for economic development - Actual disadvantage to female workers
Family abuse - Repeated acts of physical or moral harassment – Family abuse criminal offence also applies to working relationships in which, due to the small number of people and the limited space, the environment is comparable to a family
Registration in Italy of child’s - conceived through recourse to heterologous medically assisted reproduction - foreign birth certificate – Italian intentional mother and foreign biological mother – Parent’s gender identity cannot justify deterrent treatment of child
Same-sex couple - Refusal of the civil registrar to name in child’s birth certificate also the intended mother
Prohibition on correction of the birth certificate of a child born in Italy but conceived through recourse, by two women, to heterologous procreation abroad - Prohibition on naming in the birth certificate also the intended mother
Right to conscious and responsible procreation and self-determination - Termination of pregnancy permissible only in cases provided for by law where there is a danger to pregnant woman’s health or life - The mere existence of malformations of the foetus not affecting woman’s life or health does not permit access to abortion
Irrelevant cultural motive in cases of denial of fundamental goods and rights as configured by the constitutional framework - Assignment of minor daughter for payment of the so-called ‘bride price”
Discrimination in the workplace on grounds of sexual orientation – Inability for religious educational institutions to discriminate against candidate teachers on grounds of their sexual orientation
Sexual violence criminal offence - The offence of sexual assault is committed even if a more invasive act of the victim's sexual sphere had been prearranged
Sexual violence committed even if the violence is not brutal and aggressive – Sexual violence act even exclusively as a functional and limited pretension of the sexual act itself – Kissin is a sexual act
Discrimination on grounds of pregnancy or maternity constitutes a special example of gender-based discrimination - Non-renewal of the fixed-term contract of a pregnant worker - Refusal to appoint a pregnant woman or firing her because of her pregnancy or maternity status constitute a direct discrimination on grounds of sex
Possibility of voluntary termination of pregnancy - Requirements to perform therapeutic abortion - Failure to inform of possible foetus’ malformations
Recognition of the foreign order establishing a child’s adoption by a same-sex couple – Refusal to register it in case of adoption by same-sex couples
Killing of a young African descent woman and impunity of the perpetrator due a broad application of the parliamentary immunity - Gender stereotypes employed by domestic authorities to the detriment of the victim - Violation of the right to equality before the law, to judicial protection, and to be free from discrimination
Verbal, physical and sexual violence committed against a female journalist in the context of a kidnapping by a paramilitary group - Violation of the right to judicial protection, to dignity, to freedom of thought and expression, to personal integrity, to equal protection before the law - Lack of due diligence due to discriminatory attitudes towards the victim in the course of the investigations
Killing of a female huma rights defender in the contest of spread abuses against women - Ineffective investigations without a gender lens - Violation of the right to dignity, to judicial protection and to personal integrity
Extrajudicial killing of two women and forced disappearance of two men - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to personal integrity and to judicial protection
Dissenting / Concurring: Sexual violence, discrimination against women, ineffective investigations, disappearance