Aghdgomelashvili and Japaridze v. Georgia, ECtHR, 7224/11, 8/10/2020
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2020

Article 14 (+ Article3) (Discrimination and Degrading treatment) - Abusive police conduct during search of premises of an LGBT NGO motivated by homophobic and/or transphobic hatred - Wilful humiliation and debasement with the use of hate speech and insults

Azul Rojas Marín v. Peru, IACtHR, Series C No. 402, 12/03/2020

Arbitrary arrest, rape and verbal abuse of a gay, currently trans, man by police officers during detention because of her sexual orientation – Discriminatory torture on the basis of sexual orientation – Violation of the rights to personal liberty, personal integrity, privacy, judicial guarantees and the judicial protection

D.B. and Others v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 58817/15, 58252/15, 22/11/2022
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2020

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Protracted non-recognition of legal parent-child relationship between child born through gestational surrogacy abroad and intended father who was genetic father’s registered partner

Guzmán Albarracín and Others v. Ecuador, IACtHR, Series C No. 405, 24/06/2020

Student repeatedly sexually abused by her public school's vice principal - Being pressured by the abuser to have an abortion, she committed suicide - Violation of the right to life, personal integrity, private life, dignity, education, health and to be free from gender violence and discrimination - State's obligation to adopt structural measures to address sexual violence in the school environment, including a policy to provide access to sex and reproductive education

Rana v. Hungary, ECtHR, 40888/17, 16/07/2020
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2020

A lawfully settled non-Hungarian transgender person’s request for legal gender recognition, which was refused by the authorities due to a gap in the relevant legislation in force at the material time - By not giving the applicant access to the legal gender recognition procedure, a fair balance had not been struck between the public interest and the applicant’s right to respect for his private life 

S.M. v. Croatia, ECtHR, 60561/14, 25/06/2020 [GC]
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2020

Article 4 (Positive obligations/Effective investigation/Trafficking in human beings) - Failure to hold effective investigation into allegation of human trafficking and exploitation of prostitution

Dissenting / Concurring: Turković / O’Leary, Ravarani / Pastor Vilanova / Serghides

X and Y v. Romania, ECtHR, 2145/16, 20607/16, 19/01/2021
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2020

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for private life) - Refusal of national authorities to recognise male identity of transgender persons in the absence of gender reassignment surgery - Disruption of the fair balance between the general interest not clearly identified and the interests of the applicants

221/2019, CC, 18/06/2019
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2019

Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Ban on same-sex couples and penalties for non-compliance - Alleged infringement of the fundamental right to parenthood in same-sex couples, unequal treatment on the basis of sexual orientation and economic conditions, violation of maternity protection, human dignity and the right to health, as well as the right to respect for private and family life and the prohibition of discrimination provided for by the ECHR and other international sources

278/2019, CC, 06/11/2019
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2019

Usual tolerance and aiding and abetting of prostitution – Classifying as criminal offence even in case of “prostitution voluntarily and knowingly engaged in a criminal offence”