Directive 76/207/EEC, equal treatment for male and female workers & Directive 96/34/EC – Framework Agreement on Parental Leave – Abolishment of officials’ posts due to national economic difficulties, assessment of a female worker who took parental leave as compared to workers who remained in active service – Dismissal at the end of parental leave, indirect discrimination

An allegation by the applicant, who claimed to be homosexual, that he would be at risk of ill-treatment if he were to be returned to Sierra Leone - Inadmissible 

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Lack of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships

Excessively formalistic interpretation of domestic law as regards paid maternity leave for adoptive mother - Violation of Article 14

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Exclusion of same-sex couples from “civil unions”

Total removal of applicant’s access rights on account of his attempts to transmit his religious beliefs to his child - Violation of Article 14

Impossibility of second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple - Government's failure to provide convincing reasons for the exclusion second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple, while allowing that possibility in an unmarried different-sex couple, deemed necessary for the protection of the family in the traditional sense or for the protection of the interests of the child, amounts to discrimination

Family abuse - Absorption of the offences of serious threats and battery into the offence of family abuse

Sexual harassment in the workplace - Harassment attributed to the hierarchical superior

Maternity and childhood, protection of working mothers – Adoption and pre-adoptive fostering of a child - Arrangements for payment of maternity allowance for a period of three months following the time the child enters the family home

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Compulsory maternity leave - Deteriorating working and personal situation - Obligation to work in unlivable conditions in a degraded place

Same-sex couple - Marriage contracted abroad by two same-sex Italian citizens - Impossibility of registering in Italy a marriage contracted abroad between same-sex people

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Ineffective investigation into possible racist motivation for ill-treatment allegedly suffered by Nigerian prostitute

Refusal of simple adoption order in favour of homosexual partner of biological mother - No violation of Article 14

Article 3 (+ Article 14) - Discrimination - Failure to conduct effective investigation into whether assault by private party was a hate crime motivated by homophobia

Violation of Article 3 (treatment and investigation) and Article 8 - The case concerned three women of Roma origin who complained in particular that they had been sterilised without their full and informed consent, that the authorities’ ensuing investigation into their sterilisation had not been thorough, fair or effective and that their ethnic origin had played a decisive role in their sterilisation

A Moldovan national alleged that, at the age of fourteen, she was raped by an acquaintance, she complained that the authorities had not investigated her allegations effectively and that the requirement of corroborative evidence of resistance had been discriminatory against her - Violation of Article 3 (investigation)

Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 11 (freedom of assembly) – Excessive use of force by the police during a peaceful demonstration – Obligation to respect fundamental rights by public authorities in the context of public demonstrations

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Difference in treatment between male and female military personnel regarding rights to parental leave