H.W. v. France, ECtHR, 13805/21, 23/01/2025
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2025

Fault-based divorce attributed exclusively to the applicant for failure to fulfil 'marital duties' on the grounds that she had ceased to have sexual relations with her husband - Concept of 'marital duties' runs counter to sexual freedom, the right to bodily autonomy and the states' obligation to prevent and combat domestic and sexual violence - Violation of Article 8

M.A. v. Iceland, ECtHR, 59813/19, 27/08/2025
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2025

Failure to conduct an effective investigation into applicant’s complaints of domestic violence - Delays and administrative confusion leading to the expiry of limitation periods - Art 14 (+ Art 3 and Art 8) - Alleged gender-based discrimination in handling of domestic violence cases

N.D. v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 56114/18, 03/04/2025
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2025

Art. 2 - Failure of the national authorities to fulfil their positive obligation to protect the applicant's life from violence by her partner - Acts qualified as violence against women - Lack of sufficient coordination between the various services and shortcomings in the applicable domestic law

Dissenting / Concurring: Von Werdt, Mourou-Vikstrom / Felici, Šimackova / Elosegui

M.Ș.D. v. Romania, ECtHR, 28935/21, 03/12/2024
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2024

Art 8 (Positive obligations/Private life) - Inadequate criminal legal framework, at the material time, not affording the applicant protection against acts of online harassment committed by her former intimate partner consisting of the non-consensual public dissemination of intimate photographs of her - Failure to conduct prompt and thorough criminal investigation

Oghlishvili v. Georgia, ECtHR, 7621/19, 04/07/2024
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2024

Violation of Article 2 (procedural) - Lack of effective investigation into the alleged suicide of the applicant’s daughter in a domestic violence context - Investigative authority’s non-compliance with requirement to display particular diligence and vigour when investigating a case involving violence against women could be read as sheer unwillingness to establish the truth

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

María et al. v. Argentina, IACtHR, Series C No. 494, 22/08/2023

Pregnant adolescent encouraged to give her unborn child up for adoption by health professionals on the basis of gendered stereotypes concerning her unsuitability to find a partner to form a family should the child be kept by her – Authorization to adopt the baby signed by the mother without any assisting lawyer in a document directed to the Provincial Direction for the Promotion of the Rights of the Child, Adolescent and the Family – Violation of the rights to equality, family life, judicial guarantees, judicial protection, physical integrity, live free from violence, and the rights of