An allegation by the applicant, who claimed to be homosexual, that he would be at risk of ill-treatment if he were to be returned to Sierra Leone - Inadmissible 

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Lack of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships

Impossibility of second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple - Government's failure to provide convincing reasons for the exclusion second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple, while allowing that possibility in an unmarried different-sex couple, deemed necessary for the protection of the family in the traditional sense or for the protection of the interests of the child, amounts to discrimination

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Same-sex couple - Marriage contracted abroad by two same-sex Italian citizens - Impossibility of registering in Italy a marriage contracted abroad between same-sex people

Mother in a same-sex relationship denied custody of her children – Violation of the right to privacy under Article 11(2) of the American Convention – The right to privacy includes the protection of intimate relationships

Refusal of simple adoption order in favour of homosexual partner of biological mother - No violation of Article 14

Article 3 (+ Article 14) - Discrimination - Failure to conduct effective investigation into whether assault by private party was a hate crime motivated by homophobia

Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Convictions for circulating homophobic leaflets at school - No violation

Article 3 (Degrading treatment/Inhuman treatment) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Holding of homosexual prisoner in total isolation for more than eight months to protect him from fellow prisoners - Holding of homosexual prisoner in total isolation for more than eight months to protect him from fellow prisoners

Occupational pension scheme in the form of a supplementary retirement pension for former employees of a local authority and their survivors – Method of calculating that pension favouring married recipients over those living in a registered life partnership – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

The applicant, as Christian, complained that his return to Iraq would involve a violation of Article 3 of the Convention

Article 3 - The applicant alleges in particular that he was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment by other detainees while in detention, and considers that the authorities failed to take the necessary measures to protect him from this - 

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Difference in treatment on grounds of sexual orientation in relation to child-support regulations

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Difference in treatment on grounds of sexual orientation in relation to child-support regulations

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to recognize a homosexual's right to transfer a lease after the death of his partner

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal of reversionary pension to survivor of civil partnership between two people of the same sex

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Exclusion of person in homosexual relationship from insurance cover as dependant of a civil servant - Admissible

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Restriction on transsexual mother's access to her child - No violation