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This briefing by the Human Dignity Trust highlights key issues in the Uganda Prohibition of Promotion of Unnatural Sexual Practices Bill 2014. This Bill expressly seeks to further criminalise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and those who provide services to them.

Judgment of the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Singapore dismissing, on 29 October 2014, the joint appeals of Tan Eng Hong and Lim Meng Suang, who had separately challenged the constitutionality of section 377A of the Penal Code criminalising same-sex activity between men in Singapore.

The 2014 judgment of the Ugandan Constitutional Court declaring Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act void on the basis that Parliament did not have the required quorum when the Act was passed on 20 December 2013.

Human Dignity Trust's briefing note details how the new Criminal Code of the Gambia (2014) further criminalise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

Presentation of the Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust, Téa Braun, ‘Dark Side of the Moon: The Legacy of British Sexual Offences Laws in the Commonwealth’, to the Legal and Judicial Legacies of Empire Conference on 17 June 2014.

Decision of the European Court of Human Rights to discontinue the case of Mr H. Ç., following the decriminalisation of same-sex activity by the Parliament of Northern Cyprus.