Article 11 and Article 14 (+11) - Failure to ensure that public LGBTI awareness event proceeded peacefully - Passive police conduct and failure to restrain homophobic verbal attacks and physical pressure by counter-demonstrators
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Article 11 and Article 14 (+11) - Failure to ensure that public LGBTI awareness event proceeded peacefully - Passive police conduct and failure to restrain homophobic verbal attacks and physical pressure by counter-demonstrators
Prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation — Public statements ruling out recruitment of homosexual persons
Judge Rapporteur: I. Jarukaitis
Restriction on applicant’s contact rights based on his mental disorder, without assessing the latter’s impact on his caring skills or child’s safety - Violation of Article 14
Dissenting / Concurring: Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, Georges Ravarani
Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Protracted non-recognition of legal parent-child relationship between child born through gestational surrogacy abroad and intended father who was genetic father’s registered partner
Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Conviction for hate speech after posting offensive comments online about homosexuality
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - The applicant, a widow, argued that the denial of her right to a survivor’s pension due to her husband’s lack of social security contributions violated her rights - The decision to deny her pension was discriminatory based on her husband's failure to meet contribution requirements
A lawfully settled non-Hungarian transgender person’s request for legal gender recognition, which was refused by the authorities due to a gap in the relevant legislation in force at the material time - By not giving the applicant access to the legal gender recognition procedure, a fair balance had not been struck between the public interest and the applicant’s right to respect for his private life
Article 4 (Positive obligations/Effective investigation/Trafficking in human beings) - Failure to hold effective investigation into allegation of human trafficking and exploitation of prostitution
Dissenting / Concurring: Turković / O’Leary, Ravarani / Pastor Vilanova / Serghides
Article 3 (procedural and substantive) - Ineffective investigation into arguable allegations of ill-treatment by police officers - Allegations not proved “beyond reasonable doubt”, partly due to investigation shortcomings
Death of sixty people among which twenty children and forty women constituting the majority of the city's low-income workers in the explosion of a fireworks factory – Gender stereotypes nurturing the division of labor pushing women to turn to fireworks industry – State's failure to regulate, supervise and address the factory's unsafe working conditions – Violation of the right to an effective remedy, to life, to personal integrity, to judicial protection, to equality in the enjoyment of health safety, children rights and non-discrimination in general
Judge Rapporteur: Gender-based violence, discrimination against women, intersectionality
Dissenting / Concurring: Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot / Vio Grossi / Sierra Porto / Pérez Manrique / Pazmiño Freire
Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for private life) - Refusal of national authorities to recognise male identity of transgender persons in the absence of gender reassignment surgery - Disruption of the fair balance between the general interest not clearly identified and the interests of the applicants
Drug addict mother on treatment disproportionately deprived of parental authority over her children who were not neglected or in danger, of which the two youngest placed in public care - Violation of Article 8
Lack of legal recognition of the filiation relationship between a child born abroad through surrogacy and the intended parent – Refusal to register in Italy foreign order
Sexual violence criminal offence - Sexual violence committed by a doctor against a young patient - Applicability of the aggravating circumstance of abuse of authority
Alternative medicine practitioner, osteopathy - Patient's consent required if medical treatment is invasive of the sexual sphere - Sexual violence committed where the patient has not been informed in advance
Relationship between the offence of aggravated murder and persecutory acts - Offence of persecutory acts not absorbed by that of aggravated murder
The offence of sexual violence is committed in the case of a forced kiss on the lips - Qualification of the kiss on the mouth as a ‘sexual act’ even in the case of mere lip contact - Kissing as an act of erotic value
Gang rape - The offence of gang rape is committed even if not all members of the group commit acts of sexual violence - The prior agreement of the participants is not required in gang rape offence
Sexual violence criminal offence - Possibility of deeming ‘unconventional’ sexual acts to be lawful insofar as they take place with the consent of the participants throughout their duration
Indirect discrimination not to employ a woman for reasons of physical unfitness due to short stature – Recruitment requirements in contrast to the principle of equality not taking into account the existence of the height difference generally found between men and women