Art 8 • Positive obligations • Failure to protect a fourteen-year-old girl from sexual abuse • Domestic legal framework, as applied by the domestic authorities, did not afford effective protection

Art 3 and Art 8 (substantive and procedural) Respondent State having failed to effectively apply a criminal system capable of punishing non-consensual sexual acts by minors - Art 14 (+ Art 3 and Art 8) “Secondary victimisation” of one of the minors due to her exposure by the national authorities to guilt-inducing, moralising remarks conveying sexist stereotypes

Art 5 (Deprivation of liberty) - Imposition of a security measure of continued detention on the applicant on mental health grounds fell short of guarantees against arbitrariness

Art. 2 - Failure of the national authorities to fulfil their positive obligation to protect the applicant's life from violence by her partner - Acts qualified as violence against women - Lack of sufficient coordination between the various services and shortcomings in the applicable domestic law

Article 3 (lack of effective investigation) and Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) - Failures in the investigation - Prejudicial gender stereotypes and victim-blaming attitudes

Sexual violence and criminal offences against sexual freedom - Gang rape – Extenuating circumstance for minor participation in the criminal offence

Sexual violence criminal offence - Telematic sexual violence - Using remote communication tools such as telephone, video call, chat, to force the offended person to perform sexual acts

Sexual violence and criminal offences against sexual freedom - Absence of offended person’s physical response and of outward signs indicating violence - Vis grata puellis

Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Possibility to assign a ‘third gender’ other than male or female gender – Alleged violation of the principle of equality, the right to personal identity, the right to health and the right to private and family life

Sexual violence and criminal offences against sexual freedom – Gang rape

Non-consensual termination of pregnancy, proof of abortion intention – Threats aiming at inducing the offended person to have an abortion - Private violence and personal injuries

Equal treatment for men and women – Part-time work - Workers of one sex are at a particular disadvantage compared to workers of the other sex

Refusal of the civil registrar to name in child’s birth certificate both women as mothers - Child conceived by medically assisted heterologous procreation and born abroad - Adoption in ‘special cases’ is the legal instrument for the intended parent in same-sex couples

Request to register both women and not only the giving-birth mother as mothers of a child born through recourse to heterologous MAR - civil registrar cannot receive intentional parent’s statement aiming at establishing a a parent-child relationship

Civil partnership – Automatic dissolution of civil partnership in case of judicial correction of one party’s assigned gender – The judge suspends the effects of the civil partnership until the celebration of the marriage and, in any case, not later than one hundred and eighty days from res judicata of the gender rectification judgment, if the two parties express, personally and jointly, their intention to marry until the required hearing

Minor born as a result of medically assisted heterologous procreation - Request for cancellation of registration in Italy of foreign birth certificate

Intended parent’s name excluded from the child’s born-by-surrogacy birth certificate – Domestic dispute over the registration of a foreign court order

Disciplinary dismissal for carrying out acts unequivocally likely to cause the termination of his partner’s pregnancy

Transgender individuals complained about the lack of a regulatory framework in Hungary for the legal recognition of their gender identity - Inadmissible - their requests had eventually been granted in 2018, and the waiting period did not constitute an unreasonable delay under Article 8 (right to private life).

Violation of Article 8 and Article 14(+ Article 8) - Disproportionate dismissal of teacher in relation to photos posted on her private social media profile - Difference in treatment based solely on considerations of sexual orientation without particularly convincing and weighty reasons