Resources

This report outlines the nature and extent of anti-LGBT hate crime and its impact on individuals and societies in the Commonwealth, explores trends across the Commonwealth and surveys regional and country-specific case examples.

This toolkit provides a framework for the delivery of training for government officials, frontline service providers and members of the general public within the Commonwealth.

Judgment of the High Court of Singapore finding that the criminalisation of same-sex activity did not violate the country's Constitution.

This case summary, prepared by the Supreme Court of Singapore, deals with the main arguments of the ruling in the case of Ong Ming Johnson v Attorney-General, which unsuccessfully challenged the criminalisation of same-sex activity in Singapore in March 2020.

This case study explores how Nauru embarked in 2009 on a wholesale review of its Criminal Code, including its sexual offences provisions, with the aim of simplifying, modernising and strengthening criminal offences. This case study provides an in-depth analysis of how this legislative reform was successfully achieved.

Judgment from the Belizean Court of Appeal 2019, upholding the decision of the Supreme Court that the criminalisation of same-sex activity violates the Constitution of Belize.