Sexual violence committed when forcing someone to perform or be subjected to sexual acts, by means of violence, threats or abuse of authority – Kissing is a sexual act 

Arbitrary detention and violence against a woman in the context of systematic sexual violence – Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to dignity, to physical integrity, to judicial protection, and to non-discrimination

Article 3 (Positive obligations) - Failure by State to put appropriate mechanisms in place to protect National School pupil from sexual abuse by teacher

Article 3 (Effective investigation) - Undue delays in criminal proceedings and failure properly to investigate rape and assault allegations

The applicant was raped by a group of men and the case was delayed for a decade because some of the defendants had emigrated to Austria - Violation of Article 3 (procedure)

Rape and torture by police officials of a woman during detention and arrest for purported involvement in terrorist activities – Violation of the right to privacy, dignity, and to humane treatment

Sexual harassment in the workplace - Harassment attributed to the hierarchical superior

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Ineffective investigation into possible racist motivation for ill-treatment allegedly suffered by Nigerian prostitute

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)

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) 

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

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

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

Article 3 (Expulsion) - Risk of ill-treatment in case of deportation to Afghanistan of a woman separated from her husband - Deportation would constitute a violation

Article 3 (Degrading treatment, Inhuman treatment, and Expulsion) - Alleged risk of female genital mutilation if applicant returned to Nigeria - Inadmissible

Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) and Article 2 (Effective investigation) - Failure by Cyprus to establish suitable framework to combat trafficking in human beings or to take operational measures to protect victims and failure by Russia to conduct effective investigation into recruitment of a young woman on its territory by traffickers - Failure by Cypriot authorities to conduct effective homicide investigation, in particular, as regards securing relevant evidence abroad under international convention for mutual assistance

Rape of an indigenous girl by members of the army - Ineffective investigations - State's failure to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women – Violation of the obligation of non-discrimination in accessing justice

Sexual offences committed abroad by an Italian citizen against a foreign citizen – Letters rogatory abroad

The prohibited sexual act is the act that infringes a person's freedom of self-determination in the sexual sphere - The criminal offence of sexual violence is now a crime against personal freedom - Kissing is a sexual act

Rape and forced abortion by inhuman treatment of women and girls in the context of the extrajudicial execution of 251 members of the Las Dos Erres community by the Guatemalan armed forces - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to dignity and of the duty to investigate, prevent and punish acts of violence against women