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
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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
Family abuse - Repeated acts of physical or moral harassment – Family abuse criminal offence also applies to working relationships in which, due to the small number of people and the limited space, the environment is comparable to a family
Registration in Italy of child’s - conceived through recourse to heterologous medically assisted reproduction - foreign birth certificate – Italian intentional mother and foreign biological mother – Parent’s gender identity cannot justify deterrent treatment of child
Same-sex couple - Refusal of the civil registrar to name in child’s birth certificate also the intended mother
Prohibition on correction of the birth certificate of a child born in Italy but conceived through recourse, by two women, to heterologous procreation abroad - Prohibition on naming in the birth certificate also the intended mother
Irrelevant cultural motive in cases of denial of fundamental goods and rights as configured by the constitutional framework - Assignment of minor daughter for payment of the so-called ‘bride price”
Discrimination in the workplace on grounds of sexual orientation – Inability for religious educational institutions to discriminate against candidate teachers on grounds of their sexual orientation