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

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

Sexual violence and sexual acts with a minor – Regarding child sexual assault in a family context, reliability of statements made by the child and probable influence of the family

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

Article 3 (procedural) - Failure to carry out effective investigation into alleged death threats against vulnerable rape victim by her abuser father, in breach of domestic law

Human trafficking - Profiting from the victims' situation of vulnerability, physical and psychological inferiority and need - Exploitation of prostitution and exposure of victims to serious danger to life and bodily harm

Family abuse - Repeated acts of physical or moral harassment – Family abuse criminal offence also applies to working relationships in which, due to the small number of people and the limited space, the environment is comparable to a family

Sexual violence criminal offence - The offence of sexual assault is committed even if a more invasive act of the victim's sexual sphere had been prearranged

Sexual violence committed even if the violence is not brutal and aggressive – Sexual violence act even exclusively as a functional and limited pretension of the sexual act itself – Kissin is a sexual act

Killing of a young African descent woman and impunity of the perpetrator due a broad application of the parliamentary immunity - Gender stereotypes employed by domestic authorities to the detriment of the victim - Violation of the right to equality before the law, to judicial protection, and to be free from discrimination

Article 3 and Article 8 - Authorities breaching procedural positive obligations as to enforcement of sentence for sexual assault after offender’s amnesty granted then revoked

Extrajudicial killing of two women and forced disappearance of two men - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to personal integrity and to judicial protection

Violation of the right to free legal assistance due to the state's failure to ensure it to the applicant serving a sentence of thirty years imprisonment for the offence of rape

Gender-based violence - Legal aid in criminal proceedings - Alleged violation of the principle of equal treatment and the right to judicial protection

Family abuse - Insulting, denigrating and violent behaviour leading to a constant climate of tension and fear within the domestic environment - Failure to object to sexual intercourse with one's spouse for fear of even more detrimental consequences does not constitute a mitigating factor

Sexual violence criminal offence - For the aggravating circumstance referred to in Article 609 ter(1)(2) of the criminal code to be applicable, the use of alcoholic or narcotic substances must depend on a giving carried out or facilitated by the defendant and whose purpose must be the performance of sexual acts

Sexual violence criminal offence - Deposition of the offended person in the current procedural system - Subjective credibility and reliability of the narration

The offence of sexual violence is committed even in the absence of physical contact with the victim - Sexual acts with a minor - Threats to coerce a minor into exchanging sexually explicit selfies and messages

Sexual violence and abuse of authority - Abuse of authority constitutes a position of supremacy to force the passive subject to perform or be subjected to sexual acts

Gang rape - Participation in gang rape video recording - The offence of gang rape is committed even if not all members of the group commit acts of sexual violence