Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Effects of the judgment regarding the correction on preexisting marriage – Automatic termination of the civil effects resulting from the registration of the marriage celebrated by religious rite, without the need for an application and judicial decision

Sexual violence committed when forcing someone to perform or be subjected to sexual acts, by means of violence, threats or abuse of authority – Kissing is a sexual act 

Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Differences between, on the one hand, the limitations that apply to the verification of statements and documentary or other evidence as regards the declared sexual orientation of an applicant for asylum and, on the other hand, those that apply to the verification of those elements as regards other grounds for persecution

Arbitrary detention and violence against a woman in the context of systematic sexual violence – Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to dignity, to physical integrity, to judicial protection, and to non-discrimination

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to give applicant female identity number following sex change unless marriage was transformed into a civil partnership

Article 3 (Positive obligations) - Failure by State to put appropriate mechanisms in place to protect National School pupil from sexual abuse by teacher

Article 3 (Effective investigation) - Undue delays in criminal proceedings and failure properly to investigate rape and assault allegations

Article 8 (Positive obligations and Respect for private life) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to prosecute for a joke made during television comedy show about homosexual celebrity referred to as a ‘female’

Ineffective investigations with many deficiencies after the victim’s mother’s report of the disappearance and later killing of her young minor daughter - Violation of the right to life, to personal integrity, to non-discrimination and the duty of due diligence to prevent and investigate violence against women

The applicant was raped by a group of men and the case was delayed for a decade because some of the defendants had emigrated to Austria - Violation of Article 3 (procedure)

Collective agreement which restricts a benefit in respect of pay and working conditions to employees who marry – Exclusion of partners entering into a civil solidarity pact – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

Minimum standards relating to the conditions for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status – Well-founded fear of being persecuted on account of membership of a particular social group – Acts sufficiently serious to justify such a fear, legislation criminalising homosexual acts

Rape and torture by police officials of a woman during detention and arrest for purported involvement in terrorist activities – Violation of the right to privacy, dignity, and to humane treatment

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Lack of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Exclusion of same-sex couples from “civil unions”

Sexual harassment in the workplace - Harassment attributed to the hierarchical superior

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Penitentiary system – Detainees must have conversations under the visual surveillance of custody staff - Alleged impediment to a full emotional relationship between the detainee and the partner, i.e. the spouse or the de facto cohabiting partner

Same-sex couple - Marriage contracted abroad by two same-sex Italian citizens - Impossibility of registering in Italy a marriage contracted abroad between same-sex people

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Ineffective investigation into possible racist motivation for ill-treatment allegedly suffered by Nigerian prostitute