Lashmankin and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 57818/09 + other 14, 07/02/2017
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2017

Article 11 (Freedom of peaceful assembly) Article 13 (Effective remedy) - Arbitrary and discriminatory power of authorities to propose changes in location, time or manner of conduct of a public event - Lack of effective remedy allowing an enforceable judicial decision against authorities’ refusal to approve the location, time or manner of conduct of a public event before its planned date

OC-24/17, Gender Identity, Equality and Non-Discrimination of Same-Sex Couples: State Obligations Concerning Change of Name, Gender Identity, and Rights Derived from a Relationship between Same-Sex Couples, IACtHR, Series A No. 24, 24/11/2017

Scope of the rights to a name, to privacy, and to equal protection of the laws under the Pact of San José – Protection of the change of name, and the rectification of public records and identity documents in conformity to an individual’s gender identity – States’ obligation to extend all existing mechanisms, including marriage, to same-sex couples

Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi / Siera Porto

C-528/13, CJEU, 29/04/2015

Technical requirements relating to blood and blood components, blood donation — Eligibility criteria for blood donors, persons whose sexual behaviour puts them at a high risk of acquiring severe infectious diseases that can be transmitted by blood — Man who has had sexual relations with another man

Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan

Identoba and Others v. Georgia, ECtHR, 73235/12, 12/05/2015
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2015

Article 3 (Positive obligations) and Article 14 (Discrimination) - State’s failure to protect demonstrators from homophobic violence and to launch effective investigation - State’s failure to protect demonstrators from homophobic violence and to launch effective investigation

Dissenting / Concurring: Wojtyczek

C‑148/13, C‑149/13 and C‑150/13, CJEU, 02/12/2014

Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Differences between, on the one hand, the limitations that apply to the verification of statements and documentary or other evidence as regards the declared sexual orientation of an applicant for asylum and, on the other hand, those that apply to the verification of those elements as regards other grounds for persecution

Judge Rapporteur: L. Bay Larsen

Hämäläinen v. Finland, ECtHR, 37359/09, 16/07/2014 [GC]
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2014

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to give applicant female identity number following sex change unless marriage was transformed into a civil partnership

Dissenting / Concurring: Ziemele / Sajó, Keller and Lemmens