Harassment in the workplace - Harassment is unwanted conduct on grounds of sex with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of an employee and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment

Rejection of the registration in Italy of the birth certificate of a child – conceived through recourse to heterologous medically assisted reproduction and born in Italy - naming the intended parent as the child's parent - The legislator has restricted access to heterologous medically assisted reproduction to situations of pathological infertility, which does not include same-sex couples

Adoption of a child by same-sex couples - Assessment of withdrawal of consent to adoption by the biological parent - Assessment of the child's best interests

Adoption in ‘special cases’ is the legal instrument for the intended parent in same-sex couples

Recognition of judgment delivered by foreign judge regarding intended mother’s full adoption of a child, biological son of one of the two partners of a female same-sex couple married abroad – Request for transcription of foreign birth certificate – Child born abroad by medically assisted reproduction

The prohibited sexual act is the act that infringes a person's freedom of self-determination in the sexual sphere - The criminal offence of sexual violence is now a crime against personal freedom - Kissing is a sexual act

Dissolution of civil partnership - Necessary prerequisites for entitlement to an allowance

Protection of women against all forms of violence – Family abuse - Repeated behaviour aimed at physically or psychologically damaging the dignity and identity of the offended person by restricting her self-determination

Sexual violence criminal offence -The Court considers sexual violence also when sexual intercourse is consummated even if only by taking advantage of the state of prostration, distress or diminished resistance in which the victim is reduced

Restraining order applicable when cohabitation between the defendant and the victim is no longer in place - Attempt to violently restore cohabitation may constitute grounds for imposing a restraining order

Protection of victims of domestic and gender-based violence - Suspended sentence granted to the defendant on account of his participation in specific rehabilitation programmes at qualified institutions or associations

The utterance of improper and offensive sentences aloud, in the presence of several users, towards a colleague - Sexually offensive sentences towards a colleague and just cause for dismissal

Medically assisted procreation – Refusal of the civil registrar to name the intended mother together with the biological mother

Medically assisted procreation – Refusal of the civil registrar to name the intended mother together with the biological mother

Recognition of international protection - Gender-based violence as one of the offences expressly envisaged for the purposes of granting refugee status - Refusal to an arranged marriage

Surrogacy – Registration in Italy of a born-by-surrogacy child’s foreign birth certificate - Possibility of granting the status of child recognised also by the intentional mother

Failure to make a timely diagnosis of foetal pathology - Pregnant woman’s inability to make her own decision as to voluntary termination of pregnancy after the 90th day of gestation - Compensation for damage caused by unwanted birth

Refusal of the civil registrar to two women’s request to correct their child’s birth certificate by naming both as mothers – Child born in Italy through recourse to medically assisted reproduction carried out by a female same-sex couple

Persecutory acts – The offence of persecutory acts is also committed in the case of indirect harassment - Communications of a harassing or threatening nature directed to recipients other than the offended person, but linked to the latter by a qualified relationship of proximity

Prohibition of surrogacy as an obstacle to the recognition of the foreign order establishing the filiation of the child born abroad – Prohibition in Italy of transcription of the foreign order naming the intended parent as the child's parent