Sexual violence committed when forcing someone to perform or be subjected to sexual acts, by means of violence, threats or abuse of authority – Kissing is a sexual act
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Sexual violence committed when forcing someone to perform or be subjected to sexual acts, by means of violence, threats or abuse of authority – Kissing is a sexual act
Family abuse - Absorption of the offences of serious threats and battery into the offence of family abuse
Forced disappearance of 26 people registered in a 'military diary' between 1983-1985 in the context of an internal conflict - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to judicial protection, to personal integrity, and to freedom of association
Forced disappearances, murders, inhumane treatment and sexual violence against women in the context of the massacres against members of Río Negro community perpetrated by the Army of Guatemala and members of the Civilian Self-Defense Patrols - Violation of freedom from slavery, freedom of association, movement and residence, conscience and religion, the right to humane treatment, to life, to a fair trial, and to judicial protection
An attack on the applicant in the street in the course of which acid was thrown in her face, and the question of the authorities’ obligation to protect people and diligence in the proceedings following the attack - A violation of Articles 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment – procedural aspect) and 8 (right to respect for private and family life)
Forced disappearance of a woman and kidnapping of her daughter during military dictatorship with the child being raised by a Uruguayan policeman and his wife, knowing nothing of her true identity until her paternal grandfather found her decades later - Violation of the right to preservation of identity, and to an effective remedy due to an amnesty law prevent prosecution of authors of serious human rights violations
Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi
Article 2 (Positive obligations) - Absence of provision in criminal law to sanction involuntary termination of pregnancy - No violation
State's inability to recover ancestral property belonging to the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community - Lack of access to property and possession threatening the survival of the community, resulting in nutritional, medical and health vulnerability of its members, particularly pregnant women, children, and the elderly - Violation of the right to judicial protection, to life, to personal integrity, to non-discrimination, to property as well as children rights
Judge Rapporteur: Discrimination against women, gender-based violence, property
Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi / Fogel Pedrozo
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
Disappearance, torture, rape, brutal mutilation and death of three young women in cotton field in a context of insecurity and violence, especially against women - Violation of the right to life, to humane treatment, to personal liberty as well as the duty to investigate, prevent and punish violence against women
Dissenting / Concurring: García-Sayan / Medina Quiroga
Harassment, persecution, physical and verbal attacks against people linked to a television station because of their exercise of their freedom of expression, including twelve women targets of gendered attacks –Intimidating statements made by government officials in a context of high social polarization and conflict – Violation of the right to freedom of expression and to effective investigations
Dissenting / Concurring: Paceri Scaramuzza
Harassment, persecution, physical and verbal attacks against people linked to a television channel, including women targeted because of their gender – Intimidating statements made by government officials in a context of high social polarization and conflict – Violation of the right to freedom of expression and to effective investigations
Dissenting / Concurring: Paceri Scaramuzza
Sexual violence criminal offence - Reliability of statements made by the victim of sexual violence - Wearing jeans-type trousers, which do not hinder touching of intimate parts, cannot affect the victim's trustworthiness
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
Sexual acts with a minor - 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
Crimes against sexual freedom - Performance of sexual acts with a minor younger than fourteen - Ignorance regarding the age of the injured party
Gang rape – Applicabilty of the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences referred to in the last paragraph of Article 609-bis of the Italian Criminal Code
Gang rape criminal offence – Applicabilty of the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences
Rape and ill-treatment of twenty girls and young women in the context of the massacre of 268 people, mainly indigenous Mayans, as part of genocidal counter-insurgence state policy against indigenous people – Denial of justice, intimidation and discrimination to the detriment of the survivors and the next of kin of the victims
Dissenting / Concurring: García Ramírez / Cançado Trinidade
Gang rape criminal offence - Failure to apply the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences - Alleged violation of the principle of equality and the re-educative function of punishment