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C. v. Romania: A ‘Sensitive and Reverent’ But Gender-Blind Standard for Assessment of Sexual Harassment Cases? The ECtHR’s Long and Winding Road to Gender-Responsiveness in Sexual Predation Contexts
[Margarita S. Ilieva is an international human rights litigator, providing analysis and capacity building for institutions including the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, OSCE, the Academy of European Law, Equinet, and others.] In C. v. Romania (30.08.2022), the Court examined the authorities’ response to a sexual harassment at work complaint. It deemed the response ‘insensitive and irreverent’, and otherwise flawed, and declared a procedural violation of Article 8...