C-460/06, CJEU, 11/10/2007

Protection of pregnant women, Directive 92/85/EEC, Article 10, Prohibition on dismissal from the beginning of pregnancy to the end of maternity leave − Period of protection, decision to dismiss a female worker during that period of protection; notification and implementation of the decision to dismiss after the expiry of that period − Equal treatment for male and female workers

Judge Rapporteur: A. Ó Caoimh

Cantoral-Huamaní and García-Santa Cruz v. Peru, IACtHR, Series C No. 167, 10/06/2007

Execution of the female founder of a women's organization in a mining community providing support to the families of miners during a strike, as an attempt to intimidate miners into non unionizing – Violation of the right to life, to humane treatment, to personal liberty, and to freedom of association

Dissenting / Concurring: Ventura Robles

L. v. Lithuania, ECtHR, 27527/03, 11/09/2007
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2007

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) Article 41 (Just satisfaction) - Failure to introduce implementing legislation to enable a transsexual to undergo gender-reassignment surgery and change his gender identification in official documents: violation - Just satisfaction in respect of State’s failure to enact implementing legislation

Dissenting / Concurring: Elisabet Fura-Sandström, Dragoljub Popović

C-191/03, CJEU, 08/12/2005

Equal pay for men and women – Illness arising prior to maternity leave, pregnancy-related illness, person subject to the general sick-leave scheme – Effect on pay, absence offset against the maximum total number of days of paid sick leave over a specified period)

Judge Rapporteur: C. Gulmann

Yean and Bosico Children v. the Dominican Republic, IACtHR, Series C No. 130, 8/09/2005

Refusal to provide copies of birth certificates requested by two girls born in the Dominican Republic to Dominican mothers by local officials as part of a deliberate policy to deny documents to Dominicans of Haitian descent, resulting in the girls being refused their nationality, not being able to go to school, and facing other serious problems – Violation of the right to equality and non-discrimination, to protection measures, to nationality, to having a legal status and a name, and to be part of a political community

Judge Rapporteur: Discrimination against women, girls, birth certificate, intersectionality

Dissenting / Concurring: Cançado Trinidade

C‑220/02,CJEU, 08/06/2004

Principle of equal pay for men and women – Concept of pay – Taking into account, for calculation of termination payments, of periods of military service – Possibility of comparing workers performing military service with women workers who, after their maternity leave, take parental leave the duration of which is not taken into account for calculating a termination payment

Judge Rapporteur: J.-P. Puissochet