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

Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) - Ill-treatment of a woman by Turkish police officers during detention

The complaint by three women that the restrictions on abortion in Ireland stigmatised and humiliated them, risked damaging their health, and, in the third applicant’s case, even her life - violation of Article 8 (right to private and family life) in respect of the third applicant

Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Seizure of translation of erotic literary work and conviction of publisher

Article 11 (Freedom of association and Freedom of peaceful assembly) - Repeated refusals to authorise gay-pride parades

Refusal of German courts to allow the applicant to see his biological children, twins, with whom he had never lived - Violation of Article 8

Inability of biological father to establish in law his paternity of children born to a married woman with whom he had been cohabiting - No violation

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Differences in procedural requirements for early release depending on length of sentence

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