M.L. v. Poland, ECtHR, 40119/21, 14/12/2023
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2023

Divieto di aborto per anomalie fetali a seguito di modifiche introdotte dalla Corte Costituzionale, con conseguente interruzione di gravidanza condotta all'estero - Contestazione dei procedimenti decisivi per i diritti ex Art. 8 - Mancanza del requisito della prevedibilità priva la ricorrente delle garanzie necessarie contro l'arbitrarietà

Dissenziente / Concorrente: Krzysztof Wojtyczek, Péter Paczolay / Ivana Jelić, Gilberto Felici, Erik Wennerström

G.M. and Others v. the Republic of Moldova, ECtHR, 44394/15, 22/11/2022
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2022

Indagini inefficaci su denunce di aborto e contraccezione forzati a seguito di stupro da parte di un dottore in un residenza neuropsichiatrica di tre ricorrenti con disabilità intellettiva e capacità giuridica - Fallimento dello Stato di stabilire e applicare un sistema di protezione contro gravi violazioni dell'integrità delle donne con disabilità intellettiva residenti in istituzioni psichiatriche - Legislazione penale inadquata e mancanza di meccanismi di prevenzione di tali abusi

Y.P. v. Russia, ECtHR, 43399/13, 20/09/2022
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2022

Mancato raggiungimento della soglia di gravità in caso di sterilizzazione senza consenso - Decisione presa in una situazione inattesa ed urgente, dopo un'approfondita valutazione da parte di una squadra di medici e guidata da preoccupazioni reali per la salute e la sicurezza - Fallimento da parte del pesonale medico di cercare ed ottenere il consenso esplicito, libero ed informato per la sterilizzazione, come richiesto dal diritto interno

Dissenziente / Concorrente: Georgios A. Serghides, Darian Pavli / María Elósegui

D v. France, ECtHR, 11288/18, 16/07/2020
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2020

The applicants, a married couple and their daughter born in Ukraine via gestational surrogacy, faced a refusal by the French Court of Appeal in 2017 to fully register the Ukrainian birth certificate, listing only the legal father-child relationship - The Court held that the intended mother could establish a legal relationship through adoption, not directly through the foreign birth certificate, in accordance with French law which does not permit gestational surrogacy - The Court found this approach did not violate the child's rights, as the adoption process provided an effective mechanism f

Ageyevy v. Russia, ECtHR, 7075/10, 18/04/2013
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2013

Violation of Article 8 (Respect for family life and private life) - Revocation of adoption while criminal proceedings for suspected child abuse were still pending - Failure adequately to investigate unauthorised disclosure of confidential information or to protect reputation and right to be presumed innocent of parent suspected of child abuse

Csoma v. Romania, ECtHR, 8759/05, 15/01/2013
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2013

The applicant had her pregnancy terminated due to the fetus being diagnosed with hydrocephalus - Following complications from the treatment to induce abortion, her doctor had to remove her uterus and ovaries to save her life, leaving her permanently unable to bear children -  The Court concluded that the applicant's right to private life was infringed by not involving her in the choice of medical treatment or informing her of the risks, and the State failed to provide a system for redress, thus violating Article 8

X and Others v. Austria, ECtHR, 19010/07, 19/02/2013 [GC]
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2013

Impossibilità di adozione coparentale in coppia omosessuale - Fallimento del Governo di fornire ragioni convincenti alla base dell'esclusione dell'adozione parentale in coppie omosessuali, concedendo la possibilità in coppie non sposate eterosessuali, ritenuto necessario per la protezione della famiglia nel senso tradizionale o la protezione dell'interesse superiore del minore, costituisce discriminazione

 

Dissenziente / Concorrente: Josep Casadevall, Ineta Ziemele, Anatoly Kovler, Danutė Jočienė, Ján Šikuta, Vincent A. De Gaetano, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos / Dean Spielmann

I.G. and Others v. Slovakia, ECtHR, 15966/04, 13/11/2012
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2012

Violation of Article 3 (treatment and investigation) and Article 8 - The case concerned three women of Roma origin who complained in particular that they had been sterilised without their full and informed consent, that the authorities’ ensuing investigation into their sterilisation had not been thorough, fair or effective and that their ethnic origin had played a decisive role in their sterilisation

N.B. v. Slovakia, ECtHR, 29518/10, 12/06/2012
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2012

The applicant claimed she suffered inhumane and degrading treatment, negative impacts on her private and family life, and discrimination based on sex and ethnic origin due to the lack of effective anti-discrimination laws in Slovakia at the time of her sterilization - The Court held that the applicant's rights under Article 3 were violated, and that the State's failure to provide sufficient legal protections for the reproductive health of Roma women violated Article 8.

P. and S. v. Poland, ECtHR, 57375/08, 30/10/2012
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2012

Violation of Article 8 (Disclosure of information by public hospital about a pregnant minor who was seeking an abortion after being raped; Medical authorities’ failure to provide timely and unhindered access to lawful abortion to a minor who had become pregnant as a result of rape) - Violation of Article 5 (Placement of pregnant minor in juvenile shelter to prevent her from seeking abortion following rape) - Violation of Article 3 (Harassment of minor by anti-abortion activists as a result of authorities’ actions after she had sought an abortion following rape)

Dissenziente / Concorrente: Vincent A. De Gaetano

V.C. v. SLOVAKIA, ECtHR, 18968/07, 8/11/2011
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2011

The allegation of a Slovak woman of Roma ethnic origin that she had
been the victim of forced sterilisation - A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) - A violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)

Dissenziente / Concorrente: Ljiljana Mijović

Zaunegger v. Germany, ECtHR, 22028/04, 03/12/2009
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2009

Violation of Article 14 (discrimination) - Inability of father of a child born out of wedlock to obtain joint custody without the mother’s consent - The applicant had been treated differently from mothers or from married or divorced fathers in that he had required his former partner's consent to joint custody

Dissenziente / Concorrente: Bertram Schmitt

E.B. v. France, ECtHR, 43546/02, 22/01/2008
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2008

Rifiuto di rilascio dell'approvazione ai fini dell'adozione, sulla base dello stile di vita della ricorrente come donna lesbica convivente con altra donna - La Corte ha ritenuto che il riferimento all'omosessualità della ricorrente sia stato, se non esplicito, almeno implicito, che sia stata stabilita l'influenza della sua dichiarata omosessualità sulla valutazione del suo ricorso, e che la stessa abbia costituito un fattore decisivo nella decisione del rifiuto dell'autorizzazione ad adottare - Le autorità domestiche hanno operato una distinzione sulla base delle considerazioni concernenti

Dissenziente / Concorrente: Jean-Paul Costa, Riza Türmen, Mindia Ugrekhelidze, Danutė Jočienė, Boštjan Zupančič, Loukis Loucaides, Antonella Mularoni / Peer Lorenzen, Sverre Erik Jebens

Palau-Martinez v. France, ECtHR, 64927/01, 16/12/2003
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2003

Violation of Article 14 (discrimination) - Placement of children with father, as the mother was a Jehovah’s Witness -  The appeal court had treated the parents differently on the basis of the applicant’s religion, on the strength of a harsh analysis of the educational principles allegedly imposed by the religion

Dissenziente / Concorrente: W. Thomassen

Nedescu v. Romania, ECtHR, 70035/10, 16/01/2018

The case concerned the couple’s complaint that they had not been able to recover embryos that had been seized by the prosecuting authorities in 2009 and that they had been prevented from having another child - Violation of Article 8 (preventing the applicants from retrieving their embryos as ordered by the High Court of Cassation constituted an interference with their right to respect for their private life)