Rejection of the applicant’s request for contact rights with her former spouse’s child, who had been conceived by medically assisted procreation - Violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)
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Rejection of the applicant’s request for contact rights with her former spouse’s child, who had been conceived by medically assisted procreation - Violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)
Birth certificate issued by the Member State of birth of the child and designating two mothers in respect of that child – Refusal by the Member State of origin of one of those two mothers to transcribe that birth certificate into the national register of civil status – Transcription of that certificate being a prerequisite for the issuing of identity documents, national legislation of that Member State of origin not recognising the parenthood of persons of the same sex
Judge Rapporteur: M. Ilešič
Survivor’s pension – Members of a civil partnership – National legislation making the grant of a survivor’s pension conditional upon the entry in the national register of a partnership that was validly concluded and registered in another Member State
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Article 8 (Private life) - Collection of data on sexual behaviour of potential blood donor based on speculation, and excessive length of data retention by public body - Applicant deferred from blood donation on basis of law requiring contraindication for men who had had sexual intercourse with another man
Ineffective investigation into allegations of forced abortions and forced contraception after rape by a doctor in a neuropsychiatric residential asylum of three intellectually disabled applicants with legal capacity - Respondent State's failure to establish and apply effectively a system protecting intellectually disabled women in psychiatric institutions against serious breaches of their integrity - Inadequate criminal legislation and lack of mechanisms to prevent such abuse
Article 3 (procedural) - Failure to carry out effective investigation into alleged death threats against vulnerable rape victim by her abuser father, in breach of domestic law
Dissenting / Concurring: Wojtyczek / Derenčinović
Article 8 (Private and family life) - Refusal of couple’s request for a self-funded second homologous in vitro fertilisation procedure, on the basis of the wife’s age, not in accordance with a law of sufficient quality
Applicability to “feminising” medical procedures carried out on an intersex person during childhood, without the person’s knowledge or consent - Limitation period invoked in response to a criminal complaint by an intersex person concerning feminising medical procedures carried out during childhood, where other remedies were still available - inadmissible
Father of child born out of wedlock unable to exercise parental responsibility without mother’s consent, in spite of parentage established by DNA test - Violation of Article 14
The applicants’ complaint about the way the second applicant’s birth certificate was set out after a second-parent adoption, and their allegation of discrimination in this respect against same-sex couples, relate to Articles 8 and 14 of the Convention - Inadmissible
Article 14 (+ Article 2) (Discrimination) - Homophobic motives underlying a murder not constituting a statutory aggravating factor and having no measurable effect on sentencing
Article 14 (+ Article 8 read in light of Article 9) - Revocable and reviewable order prohibiting a Jehovah’s Witness from actively involving his young child, brought up in Catholicism, in his religious practice - No violation
Dissenting / Concurring: Péter Paczolay, Gilberto Felici
Article 8 (Private and family life/Positive obligations) Article 14 (+ Article 8) - Transgender person unable to obtain a full birth certificate without gender reassignment reference, while its short extract and new ID documents indicate only reassigned gender - Applicant not in analogous situation with adopted children who were issued a new birth certificate in the event of full adoption
Distinction between male and female educational staff - Alleged unreasonable violation of the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of gender
Persecutory acts and stalking – Publication of social media posts causing the creation of an intimidating and hostile climate capable of compromising victim’s peace of mind and psychological freedom
Distinction between persecutory acts and harassment - Persecutory acts cause the victim a persistent and severe state of anxiety or alteration of his or her life habits - Harassment as acts aimed at annoying the victim
Out-of-wedlock child’s surname - Automatic attribution of the father’s surname – Alleged violation of the right to personal identity and the principle of equality, also with regard to European and supranational obligations
Using the derogatory epithets ‘frocio’ and ‘disgusting’ against a person constitutes defamation - Injury to personal identity - Prohibition of discrimination
Human trafficking - Profiting from the victims' situation of vulnerability, physical and psychological inferiority and need - Exploitation of prostitution and exposure of victims to serious danger to life and bodily harm
Verification of indirect gender discrimination by the employer in the selection process for economic development - Actual disadvantage to female workers