Scope of the rights to a name, to privacy, and to equal protection of the laws under the Pact of San José – Protection of the change of name, and the rectification of public records and identity documents in conformity to an individual’s gender identity – States’ obligation to extend all existing mechanisms, including marriage, to same-sex couples

Italian Cassazione recognizes stepchild adoption in special cases - Adoption in ‘special cases’ is the legal instrument for the intended parent in same-sex couples - The sexual orientation of the adoptive parent is not relevant

Possibility of weighing, in the specific case, whether it is in the best interests of the minor child to maintain meaningful relations with the biological parent's ex-partner [in particular, following the termination of the homo-affective cohabitation between them]

Recognition in Italy of a foreign judgment establishing the child’s adoption by the parent's spouse - Civil partnership between adoptee and biological parent merged in same-sex marriage celebrated abroad

Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and age — Payment of a survivor’s benefit to the civil partner — Partnership contracted before the 60th birthday of the member of the scheme

Denial of the survivor's pension to his cohabiting gay partner being provided for heterosexual partnership or married couples only - Violation of the right to equal protection

Dismissal of a military police officer pursuant to the army's rules of discipline prohibiting homosexual acts is incompatible with the Inter-American system's principles of equality and non-discrimination

Forced sterilization of an immigrant woman from Peru during a caesarean section without her prior and informed consent - Court's recognition of the impact of gendered power relations on dignity, suffering, health and the enjoyment of women's sexual and reproductive rights - Discrimination in access to health affects women’s freedom to decide freely on their bodies and their reproductive health - Violation of the right to non-discrimination, to personal freedom and integrity, dignity, private and family life, access to information and founding a family

Illegal and arbitrary detention, and killing of women human rights defenders in a context of systematic gendered violence - Violation of the right to life, to dignity, and to freedom and security

Technical requirements relating to blood and blood components, blood donation — Eligibility criteria for blood donors, persons whose sexual behaviour puts them at a high risk of acquiring severe infectious diseases that can be transmitted by blood — Man who has had sexual relations with another man

Feminicide of a young woman including sexual violence - Unjustified wait to report the disappearance to the police and for the police to take formal notice – Violation of state obligation to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women under the Belém do Pará Convention – Violation of the rights to life, to humane treatment, to a fair trial, to privacy and to judicial protection

Sexual violence criminal offence – Ban on the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences referred to in the third paragraph of Article 609-bis of the Italian Criminal Code (sexual violence)

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

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

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

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

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