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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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Norris v Ireland, 13 Eur. H.R. Rep. 186 (1988)

Norris v Ireland, 13 Eur. H.R. Rep. 186 (1988)

Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights ruling provisions criminalising certain same-sex practices between consenting adult men in private was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court found that the applicant’s right to privacy had been violated.

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