Fundamental rights, Combating discrimination – Equal treatment for men and women, sex as a factor in the assessment of insurance risks – Private life assurance contracts – Directive 2004/113/EC, Article 5(2), Derogation not subject to any temporal limitation

Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security – Exclusion from entitlement to the compensatory supplement of pensioners whose income, including that of the spouse forming part of their household, exceeds that standard amount – Indirect discrimination against women

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)

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

Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) - Trafficking of a young Bulgarian girl in Italy not supported by sufficient evidence - Inadmissible

The applicant, as Christian, complained that his return to Iraq would involve a violation of Article 3 of the Convention

Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Absence of any legal requirement for newspapers to give advance notice before publishing details of a person’s private life - No violation

Unjustified refusal to recognise the adoption of an adult by his uncle, a monk - Violation of Article 8

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 - 

The allegation of a Slovak woman of Roma ethnic origin that she had
been the victim of forced sterilisation - A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) - A violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)

Article 2 (Positive obligations) - Absence of provision in criminal law to sanction involuntary termination of pregnancy - No violation

Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) - Ill-treatment of a woman by Turkish police officers during detention

Maternity allowance - Right of the self-employed father to receive maternity allowance in place of the biological mother - Alleged unjustified unequal treatment between self-employed fathers and mothers and between self-employed and employed fathers

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Protection of female workers – Maternity allowance – Alleged violation of the principles of maternity and child protection and the principle of the protection of working mothers

Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Seizure of translation of erotic literary work and conviction of publisher

Article 11 (Freedom of association and Freedom of peaceful assembly) - Repeated refusals to authorise gay-pride parades

Equal treatment for male and female workers –Right to leave for employed mothers – Possible use by an employed mother or an employed father 

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Differences in procedural requirements for early release depending on length of sentence

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Difference in treatment on grounds of sexual orientation in relation to child-support regulations