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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.

Judgment of Trinidad and Tobago’s High Court, in the case of Jones v. Attorney General, finding in favour of the claimant that the sections of the Sexual Offences Act which prohibited “buggery” and “serious indecency” between two men and criminalised consensual same-sex activity between adults, are unconstitutional.

Judgment of the Kenyan Court of Appeal, finding that the use of forced medical examinations to 'prove' same-sex sexual conduct is unconstitutional.

Judgment of the Supreme Court of Belize finding that the criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual conduct violates the constitutional rights to dignity, privacy, equality before the law, and non-discrimination on the grounds of sex.

This note contains a summary of the parts of the 2016 Sri Lankan Report on Public Representations on Constitutional Reform that recommend the recognition and implementation of the rights of LGBT people.

This report is the first ever global in-depth analysis of how laws against same-sex activity specifically impact lesbian and bisexual women, showing that it is illegal to be a lesbian or bisexual woman in almost a quarter of all the countries in the world.