Resources

Synopsis and recommendations from the Human Dignity Trust's series of notes aim to illustrate the link between the criminalisation of private, consensual same-sex sexual activity and various aspects of good governance.

This comprehensive briefing highlights how crucial decriminalisation is for states to prosper and uphold their core democratic principles. It demonstrates the variety of lenses through which criminalisation's damaging effects can be seen, from exacerbating HIV to harming businesses and undermining the rule of law.

This case summary lays out how in 2015, the High Court of Kenya found that the failure by a government agency to register a LGBT rights non-governmental organisation, on the basis that homosexuality is criminalised in the East African country, is unconstitutional.

The 2015 judgment of the High Court of Kenya finding that the failure by a government agency to register a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights non-governmental organisation is unconstitutional.

This note by the Human Dignity Trust outlines the Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisations Bill 2015 published in the Ugandan government gazette on 10 April 2015. If passed, the Bill is likely to severely restrict the activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and in particular those who work in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights.

In 2014, a judgment of the High Court of Botswana overturned the Department of Labour and Home Affairs’ refusal to register a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organisation.