The applicant’s complaint that, raped at the age of 13, the authorities took more than 15 years to complete the ensuing investigation and she had no remedies against their reluctance to prosecute her aggressors - A violation of the authorities’ obligation under Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) 

Lack of diligence by domestic authorities in executing court order granting biological father custody of abducted child - Violation of Article 8

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

Ban preventing healthy carriers of cystic fibrosis from screening embryos for in vitro fertilisation, despite existence of right to therapeutic abortion in domestic law - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for private life)

This case concerned the procedure for awarding parental authority and custody in respect of a child whose mother was Italian and whose father was a San Marino national - The applicants, the mother and the child, complained in particular about a decision ordering the child to be returned to San Marino to live with her father and to attend school there - No violation

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)

The respondent government’s proposal to return a Nigerian woman and her two daughters to Nigeria where she claimed her daughters faced the risk of female genital mutilation - There was no evidence sending the applicants back to Nigeria would amount to a violation of Article 3

Inability of father divested of his legal capacity to acknowledge paternity of his child - Violation of Article 8

The custody rights of a mother who had temporarily entrusted the child to her parents-in-law - The applicant complained in particular of the refusal of the domestic courts to order her in-laws to return her son to her and argued that the authorities had not taken the necessary steps to facilitate reunion with her minor son - Violation of Article 8

Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) - Trafficking of a young Bulgarian girl in Italy not supported by sufficient evidence - Inadmissible

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

Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Absence of any legal requirement for newspapers to give advance notice before publishing details of a person’s private life - No violation

Unjustified refusal to recognise the adoption of an adult by his uncle, a monk - Violation of Article 8

Lack of access to prenatal genetic tests resulting in an inability to have an abortion on the grounds of foetal abnormality - violation of Article 3 (Degrading treatment/Inhuman treatment)

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Prohibition under domestic law on the use of ova and sperm from donors for in vitro fertilisation - No violation

Refusal of German courts to allow the applicant to have contact with a boy who, he claimed, was his biological son - The child’s legitimate father was married to the mother - Violation of Article 8

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 - 

The allegation of a Slovak woman of Roma ethnic origin that she had
been the victim of forced sterilisation - A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) - A violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)

Article 2 (Positive obligations) - Absence of provision in criminal law to sanction involuntary termination of pregnancy - No violation