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Breaking the Silence: Criminalisation of Lesbians and Bisexual Women and its Impacts

This report, the second edition to an original published in 2016, considers the history, extent and nature of laws criminalising consensual sexual intimacy between women, and the anti-LGBT criminal laws of all varieties that foster and perpetuate homophobia against lesbian and bisexual women as a particular group.

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HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, [2010] UKSC 31

HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, [2010] UKSC 31

Judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom which ruled in favour of two gay men from Iran and Cameroon applying for asylum in the UK. The question for the Court was whether the men could be expected to conceal their sexual orientation in order to avoid the risk of persecution. The Supreme Court held that no one should be expected to conceal their sexual orientation in order to avoid persecution.

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