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

Members of the Corporation Lawyers Collective 'José Alvear Restrepo' (CAJAR) v. Colombia, IACtHR, Series C No 506, 18/10/2023

Systematic persecution of the Colombian State against members of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective Corporation through harassment, threats, killings, disappearances and physical violence from the 1990s amounts to a violation of the rights to life, personal integrity, privacy, judicial protection, freedom of association, free movement, family protection, children’s rights and defending human rights - Gendered and sexual threats against women human rights defenders particularly targeted because of their gender, including reference to possible sexual violence against them or their da

Dissenting / Concurring: Hernández López / Mudrovitsch / Pérez Goldberg

Vučković v. Croatia, ECtHR, 15798/20, 12/12/2023
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2023

Article 3 and Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Commutation of a ten-month prison sentence imposed on applicant’s co-worker to community service, after he had been convicted of sexual violence against her - Domestic court’s commutation of sentence without careful scrutiny of all relevant considerations

Angulo Losada v. Bolivia, IACtHR, Series C No. 475, 18/11/2022

Adolescent repeatedly raped by her adult cousin – Ineffective remedies due to domestic authorities’ stereotyped preconceptions as to the applicant as complicit in her own abuse  –  Lack of an intersectional gender and childhood perspective in conducting the criminal process without avoiding revictimization – Violation of the duty of strict and enhanced due diligence and of the special protection required in a complaint of sexual violation against a girl  –  Violation of the rights to humane treatment, a fair trial, equality before the law, private and family life, of the