W.W. v. Poland, ECtHR, 31842/20, 11/07/2024
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2024

Violation of Article 8 (Private life) - Refusal to allow transgender person to continue hormone therapy in prison - Applicant particularly vulnerable as an imprisoned transgender person undergoing a gender reassignment procedure, thus requiring enhanced protection from the authorities

Dissenting / Concurring: Krzysztof Wojtyczek

X v. Greece, ECtHR, 38588/21, 12/02/2024
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2024

Article 3 and Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Failure of investigative and judicial authorities to adequately respond to rape allegations and submit the case to the careful scrutiny required - Adequate legal and regulatory domestic framework not applied in practice as investigation ineffective

Y.T. v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 41701/16, 04/07/2024
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2024

The revision of the judgement, which was originally decided in 2020 - The applicant had failed to inform the ECtHR at the time of his success in obtaining legal gender recognition from another Bulgarian court and, therefore, retroactively found the case to be inadmissible

Dissenting / Concurring: Kateřina Šimáčková

Yevstifeyev and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 226/18, 236/18, 2027/18, and 22327/22, 03/12/2024
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2024

Art 14 (+ Art 8) Discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation/Private life - Domestic authorities’ failure to comply with positive obligation to respond adequately to homophobic motivated physical threats and verbal assault by a politician against three of the applicants at a rally

A. H. and Others v. Germany, ECtHR, 7246/20, 04/04/2023
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2023

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Privacy) - Legal impossibility for a transgender parent to indicate their current gender, unrelated to their reproductive function, on the birth certificate of their child conceived after gender reassignment - Fair balance struck between the transgender parent's right to self-determination, the public interests of legal certainty and reliability and consistency of civil status, and the interests and well-being of the child

A.M. and Others v. Poland, ECtHR, 4188/21, 16/05/2023
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2023

The applicants alleged in particular that, following amendments to the legislative framework in 2020, they have effectively been banned from having access to legal abortion in the case of foetal abnormalities - inadmissible

Fedotova and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 40792/10, 30538/14, 43439/10, 17/01/2023 [GC]
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2023

Art 8 (Positive obligations/Private and family life) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for same-sex couples _ Confirmation of positive obligation to provide legal framework affording such couples adequate recognition and protection

Dissenting / Concurring: Pavli, Motoc / Wojtyczek / Poláčková / Lobov

Gauvin-Fournis and Silliau v. France, ECtHR, 21424/16, 45728/17, 07/09/2023
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2023

Refusal to allow persons born through medically assisted reproduction involving a third-party donor to access information about that donor, under the rule guaranteeing anonymity in gamete donations - No violation

Dissenting / Concurring: Georges Ravarani, Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, Mykola Gnatovsky

Lapunov v. Russia, ECtHR, 28834/19, 12/9/2023
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2023

Article 3 (substantive and procedural) and Article 14 (+ Article 3) (Discrimination) - Abduction, detention and torture of applicant by State agents in Chechnya on account of his sexual orientation - Abduction, detention and torture of applicant triggered by homophobic motives which were not investigated