Rights of LGBTI persons

Case-Law Guide


The Case-Law Guide provides an overview of Convention case-law on this Transversal Theme.
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Transversal Theme Updates


Cases selected for updating the Case-Law Guide.

Bednarek and Others v. Poland, no. 58207/14

10/07/25

Insufficient State response to battery with homophobic overtones committed against the applicants.
Judgment


Semenya v. Switzerland [GC], no. 10934/21

10/07/25

Dismissal by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court of a civil-law appeal lodged by a professional athlete against an award rendered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which rejected her complaint concerning regulations requiring her to lower her natural testosterone level to compete in the women’s category of international competitions.
Judgment | Legal Summary


M.K. v. Latvia, no. 26035/23

03/07/25

Authorities’ failure to determine, in the context of child contact proceedings, the applicant’s interim contact with the child of her former partner, to whom she had no biological ties, but for whom she had cared for several years since his birth while in a relationship with his mother.
Judgment


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