State's responsibility for sexual slavery and torture - State's failure to investigate, prosecute and act quickly to rescue a young woman having been kidnapped, continually raped, tortured and kept in conditions of sexual slavery over a period of almost 4 months

Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Refusal by the authorities to authorise a change of forename prior to the completion of gender reassignment surgery

In cases of violence against children and adolescents, States have a reinforced duty of due diligence requiring the adoption of special protection measures and the development of a procedure adapted to their needs - The State has conducted a revictimised investigation - State's failure to provide a multidisciplinary care and treatment to ensure the coordination of the different State agencies to protect children and adolescents

Excessive, indiscriminate and unwarranted use of force by the police, verbally, physically and sexually abusing eleven women during violent clashes between state and federal police and protesters - Widespread use of sexual violence against female protesters as a tactic of social control aimed at intimidating and silencing the women amounts to torture - Gender stereotypes and biases in the domestic authorities’ response including that women were lying and they should have stayed home cooking and taking care of their children

Sexual violence criminal offence - Woman with disabilities as victim of the criminal offence - Reliability of the woman's statements

Sexual violence criminal offence - Woman with disabilities as victim of the criminal offence - abuse of mental inferiority conditions

Sexual violence and sexual acts with a minor – Regarding child sexual assault, the second interview of the offended parties must be limited to exceptional cases

Article 8 (Positive obligations and Respect for private life) - Legal requirements for rectification of civil status for transgender persons

The investigation carried out by the Belgian authorities after the applicant had lodged a criminal complaint alleging rape and indecent assault - A violation of the procedural aspect of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment)

Refusal of the authorities of the Ministry of Justice to bear the cost of the applicant’s gender reassignment despite medical evidence of urgently needed treatment

Execution, torture and sexual assault of, inter alia, young girls, including minors, by police officers during a drug raid, with removal of corpses and obstruction of proper investigation – Violation of the rights to judicial protection, to physical, mental, and moral integrity, to move freely within a state and to a hearing within reasonable time by a competent and independent tribunal

Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 8 - Refusal to grant a paternity leave to the partner of the mother

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

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to register same-sex marriages contracted abroad

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Different-sex couple denied access to registered partnership reserved exclusively for same-sex couples - No violation

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

Sexual violence committed also in cases where it takes place between spouses – Family abuse committed in cases of deprivation of financial means

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]

Sexual violence committed even when someone uses violence or threats to force a prostitute to engage in non-consensual sexual intercourse - Irrelevance of the circumstance that the victim engages in prostitution as the right to respect for sexual freedom is independent of personal conditions and qualities

Prosecutability ex officio – Sexual violence criminal offence and persecutory acts - Convicted and attempted sexual assault and stalking of wife would be prosecutable ex officio if there is a Police Commissioner's warning