Resources

This briefing provides a legal analysis of Brunei’s Syariah Penal Code Order 2013 as it pertains to the criminalisation of LGBT people, and how these provisions are in violation of international human rights laws and norms.

Judgment of the Kenyan Court of Appeal upholding an earlier decision that a LGBT organisation should be allowed to register as a national NGO.

Case digest of the Supreme Court of India decision which found that the criminalisation of same-sex activity is unconstitutional.

Ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice that a law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the opposite sex for an “improper purpose”, is unconstitutional.

Judgment of the Supreme Court of India which found that the criminalisation of same-sex activity is unconstitutional.

Judgment of the Supreme Court of India on the protection of the right to privacy under the Constitution of India. Crucially, the Court recognised that “sexual orientation is an essential attribute of privacy.” The Court was also explicitly critical of the approach previously adopted by the Court in Suresh Koushal v. Naz Foundation (2013), which had in effect re-criminalised private, consensual same-sex sexual activity.