Principle of non-discrimination - Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006: “it is also appropriate to make express provision for the protection of the employment rights of women on maternity leave and in particular their right to return to the same or an equivalent post, to suffer no detriment in their terms and conditions as a result of taking such leave and to benefit from any improvement in working conditions to which they would have been entitled during their absence”

Different treatment of women justified on maternity grounds - Prohibition of dismissal on grounds of marriage applies only to the female employee

Attempted non-consensual termination of pregnancy - Acts unequivocally aimed at terminating the pregnancy in progress by causing injury

Gang rape – Victim’s voluntary consumption of alcohol or drugs - Abuse of mental or physical inferiority

Same-sex couple – Registration in Italy of a foreign judgment attributing the parenthood to two men

Forced taking of the so-called ‘date rape drug’ - Sexual violence aggravated by the abuse of the victim's impaired psychophysical condition due to drug use

Article 14 and Article 8 - Refusal to prosecute authors of serious homophobic comments on Facebook including undisguised calls for violence - Authorities’ failure to investigate effectively whether impugned comments constituted incitement to hatred and violence

Refusal by the domestic courts to grant the request by two women to delegate parental authority over their respective biological child to their partner - Manifestly ill-founded

Conditions for recognition of change of gender — National legislation under which such recognition is subject to the annulment of any marriage entered into before that change of gender — Refusal to grant a person who has changed gender a State retirement pension as from the pensionable age for persons of the gender acquired

A female married couple who had applied for medically assisted reproduction by means of artificial insemination - The application was rejected by a hospital on the grounds that “the Bioethics Law currently in force in France did not authorise such medical provision for same-sex couples” - inadmissible

Social policy, equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation —National rules providing for the temporary possibility for performing artists having reached retirement age to continue to perform until the age previously laid down for entitlement to a pension, fixed at 47 years old for women and 52 years old for men

Directive 92/85/EEC, Articles 4, 5 and 7, protection of the safety and health of workers, worker who is breastfeeding, night work, shift work performed in part at night — Risk assessment of her work, prevention measures, challenge by the worker concerned — Discrimination on grounds of sex

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, article 7, respect for private and family life — Directive 2011/95/EU, standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status, fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Assessment of facts and circumstances, recourse to an expert’s report, psychological tests

Refusal to award contact rights to the applicant in respect of the child which had been born to her former partner in Belgium using assisted reproductive techniques while the two women were a couple, despite the fact that the applicant had raised the child during his early years - No violation of Article 8 (right to respect for family life)

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

Article 2 (substantive and procedual) - Acid attack on a woman in the street - Court having regard to general situation of violence against women in Albania

Female employees of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism - Retirement at the age of 65 of female workers who have fulfilled the prerequisites for receipt of a pension by virtue of having reached the age of 61 and having accumulated twenty years of contributions on or before 31 December 2011, whereas male workers in identical employment circumstances will retire at the age of 66 years and three months/seven months

Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Possibility subject to modifications to the sex characteristics of the interested party – The modification of primary sexual characteristics through surgery is necessary

Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Identification of the interested party in the opposite gender even in the absence of the modifications to the primary sex characteristics

Succession - Infringement of the principle of equality between men and women – Men preferred to women in choosing the heir