I.G. and Others v. Slovakia, ECtHR, 15966/04, 13/11/2012
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2012

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

I.G. v. the Republic of Moldova, ECtHR, 53519/07, 15/05/2012
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2012

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)

İzci v. Turkey, ECtHR, 42606/05, 23/07/2013
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2012

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

N.B. v. Slovakia, ECtHR, 29518/10, 12/06/2012
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2012

The applicant claimed she suffered inhumane and degrading treatment, negative impacts on her private and family life, and discrimination based on sex and ethnic origin due to the lack of effective anti-discrimination laws in Slovakia at the time of her sterilization - The Court held that the applicant's rights under Article 3 were violated, and that the State's failure to provide sufficient legal protections for the reproductive health of Roma women violated Article 8

P.M. v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 49669/07, 24/01/2012
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2012

The applicant’s complaint that, raped at the age of 13, the authorities took more than 15 years to complete the ensuing investigation and she had no remedies against their reluctance to prosecute her aggressors - A violation of the authorities’ obligation under Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) 

X. v. Turkey, ECtHR, 24626/09, 9/10/2012
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2012

Article 3 (Degrading treatment/Inhuman treatment) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Holding of homosexual prisoner in total isolation for more than eight months to protect him from fellow prisoners - Holding of homosexual prisoner in total isolation for more than eight months to protect him from fellow prisoners

Dissenting / Concurring: Jočienė

116/2011, CC, 04/04/2011
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2011

Working mothers – Hypothesis of premature birth and admission of the newly born child to a public or private hospital – Right of the working mother to benefit from all or part of the mandatory period of leave to which she is entitled from the time the child enters the family home, upon request and where compatible with her state of health attested by medical documentation

C-147/08, CJEU, 10/05/2011

Occupational pension scheme in the form of a supplementary retirement pension for former employees of a local authority and their survivors – Method of calculating that pension favouring married recipients over those living in a registered life partnership – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

Judge Rapporteur: D. Šváby

Ebcin v. Turkey, ECtHR, 19506/05, 01/02/2011
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2011

An attack on the applicant in the street in the course of which acid was thrown in her face, and the question of the authorities’ obligation to protect people and diligence in the proceedings following the attack - A violation of Articles 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment – procedural aspect) and 8 (right to respect for private and family life)

Izevbekhai v. Ireland, ECtHR, 43408/08, 17/05/2011
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2011

The respondent government’s proposal to return a Nigerian woman and her two daughters to Nigeria where she claimed her daughters faced the risk of female genital mutilation - There was no evidence sending the applicants back to Nigeria would amount to a violation of Article 3

Stasi v. France, ECtHR, 25001/07, 20/10/2011
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2011

Article 3 - The applicant alleges in particular that he was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment by other detainees while in detention, and considers that the authorities failed to take the necessary measures to protect him from this - 

Dissenting / Concurring: Spielmann, Nußberger