Mitrevska v. North Macedonia, ECtHR, 20949/21, 14/05/2024
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2024

Violation of Article 8 (positive obligations and private life) - Inability of the applicant, who was adopted as a child, to obtain information concerning her biological origins and health information about her biological parents - Failure to strike a balance between the competing interests at stake

Córdoba v. Paraguay, IACtHR, Series C No. 505, 4/09/2023

Illicit removal of a child habitually resident in Argentina, relocated by the taking parent to Paraguay without the father's consent - Violation of the duty of due diligence for failing to locate for nine years a child regularly attending school and receiving public health care - Violation of the right to personal integrity for putting the applicant in a permanent state of anguish - Violation of the obligation to respect the rights and freedoms without any discrimination

Dissenting / Concurring: Pérez Manrique, Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot, Mudrovitsch / Sierra Porto, Hernándz López, Pérez Goldberg

María et al. v. Argentina, IACtHR, Series C No. 494, 22/08/2023

Pregnant adolescent encouraged to give her unborn child up for adoption by health professionals on the basis of gendered stereotypes concerning her unsuitability to find a partner to form a family should the child be kept by her – Authorization to adopt the baby signed by the mother without any assisting lawyer in a document directed to the Provincial Direction for the Promotion of the Rights of the Child, Adolescent and the Family – Violation of the rights to equality, family life, judicial guarantees, judicial protection, physical integrity, live free from violence, and the rights of

O.H. and G.H. v. Germany, ECtHR, 53568/18, 54941/18, 04/04/2023
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2023

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Privacy) - Legal impossibility for a transgender parent to indicate their current gender, unrelated to their reproductive function, on the birth certificate of their child conceived after the gender change - Fair balance struck between the transgender parent's right to self-determination, the public interests of legal certainty and reliability and consistency of civil status, and the interests and well-being of the child

X v. the Czech Republic, ECtHR, 64886/19, 30/03/2023
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2023

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Family life) - Reasoned decision enforcing return order of applicant’s child to the USA under the Hague Convention in compliance with Article 8 procedural requirements and with child’s best interests being primary consideration