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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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Kanane v State, Court of Appeal, 2003 (2), BLR

Kanane v State, Court of Appeal, 2003 (2), BLR

Judgment of the Court of Appeal at Lobatse, Botswana, found that expanding gross indecency provisions to women rectified the previously discriminatory male-only provision criminalising same-sex activity between men. The Court held in favour of the State to retain criminalisation of same-sex activity in Botswana.

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