Velásquez Paiz y otros v. Guatemala, IACtHR, Series C No. 307, 19/11/2015

Feminicide of a young woman including sexual violence - Unjustified wait to report the disappearance to the police and for the police to take formal notice – Violation of state obligation to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women under the Belém do Pará Convention – Violation of the rights to life, to humane treatment, to a fair trial, to privacy and to judicial protection

Dissenting / Concurring: Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot / Vio Grossi / Caldas

Y. v. Slovenia, ECtHR, 41107/10, 28/05/2015
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2015

Article 3 - The applicant alleged that the criminal proceedings concerning the sexual assaults against her had been unreasonably delayed, lacked impartiality, and exposed her to several traumatic experiences violating her personal integrity

Dissenting / Concurring: Yudkivska

I.G. v. the Republic of Moldova, ECtHR, 53519/07, 15/05/2012
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2012

A Moldovan national alleged that, at the age of fourteen, she was raped by an acquaintance, she complained that the authorities had not investigated her allegations effectively and that the requirement of corroborative evidence of resistance had been discriminatory against her - Violation of Article 3 (investigation)

P.M. v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 49669/07, 24/01/2012
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2012

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) 

Izevbekhai v. Ireland, ECtHR, 43408/08, 17/05/2011
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2011

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

Fernández Ortega and Others v. Mexico, IACtHR, Series C No. 215, 30/08/2010

Torture and rape of an indigenous woman by military personnel - State's failure to comply with due diligence to investigate and punish the perpetrators - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to personal integrity, dignity, to private life, to judicial protection and to an effective remedy

Dissenting / Concurring: Espinosa