Hanovs v. Latvia, ECtHR, 40861/22, 18/07/2024
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2024

Violation of Article 3 and Article 8 + Article 14 (Positive obligations, Effective investigation, and Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation) - Failure to adequately protect the applicant from a homophobic attack by ensuring the effective prosecution of the perpetrator and prosecuting the attack as a hate-motivated offence

Side by Side International Film Festival and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 32678/18, 17172/20, and 30564/21
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2024

Art 10 (Positive obligations/Freedom of expression) - Authorities’ years-long failure to secure safe and uninterrupted conduct of annual international LGBT film festival organised by the applicant company - Failure to take comprehensive action and to implement dissuasive measures concerning repeated telephone bomb threats and other false security alarms on film screening days

Yevstifeyev and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 226/18, 236/18, 2027/18, and 22327/22, 03/12/2024
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2024

Art 14 (+ Art 8) Discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation/Private life - Domestic authorities’ failure to comply with positive obligation to respond adequately to homophobic motivated physical threats and verbal assault by a politician against three of the applicants at a rally

Members of the Journalism Team of 'La Costeñísima' Radio regarding Nicaragua, IACtHR, Order , 22/3/2023

Provisional measures - Context of systemic violations of human rights including aggressions, harassment, threats and arbitrary detentions of journalists - Violence and exposure to risk of irreparable damage for women exacerbated by gender stereotypes and prejudices 

 

Valaitis v. Lithuania, ECtHR, 39375/19, 17/01/2023
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2023

Article 13 - Discontinuation of investigation into homophobic comments on the Internet not disclosing any prejudicial attitude by the authorities taking account of the Court’s case-law – Wide-ranging and multifaceted domestic measures combatting hate speech in response to Court judgment in Beizaras and Levickas

Dissenting / Concurring: Krenc

Association ACCEPT and Others v. Romania, ECtHR, 19237/16, 01/06/2021
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2021

Article 14, Article 8 and Article 11- Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation - State’s failure to ensure LGBT event proceeded peacefully, without verbal abuse, and carry out an effective investigation into homophobic motives of counter-demonstrators

Dissenting / Concurring: Grozev, Harutyunyan

Athletics South Africa v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 17670/21, 5/10/2021
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2021

Athletics South Africa challenging the Swiss Federal Supreme Court's decision upholding World Athletics' regulations on testosterone levels for female athletes with Differences in Sexual Development (DSD) – Article 14 and Article 8 – Association not considered as direct and personal victim for the purposes of Article 34

Oganezova v. Armenia, ECtHR, 71367/12, 72961/12, 17/05/2022
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2021

Article 3 (+ Article 14) (Inhuman or degrading treatment, Positive obligations, and Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation) - State’s failure to protect LGBT bar owner and activist from homophobic arson, physical and verbal attacks and to carry out effective investigation - Absence of effective domestic criminal-law mechanism for investigating discrimination complaints