UN rules that criminalisation of same-sex intimacy between women violates key rights treaty
Major legal precedent could affect millions of lesbian & bisexual women
Este seminario web, organizado por Human Dignity Trust y Equal Rights Coalition, explora cómo la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer puede ser utilizada y se está utilizando para promover la despenalización a nivel mundial.
Escuche a nuestro Director Ejecutivo Téa Braun, Monica Tabengwa del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, Rosanna Flamer-Caldera de EQUAL GROUND Sri Lanka y Alba Rueda, Representante Especial de Argentina sobre Orientación Sexual e Identidad de Género.
Major legal precedent could affect millions of lesbian & bisexual women
This complaint, submitted in August 2018, challenges the criminalisation of lesbians and bisexual women in Sri Lanka. It was submitted by a lesbian who has experienced significant harassment, discrimination and stigma engendered by the current law.
This report 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. Research and activism in respect of criminalisation tends in many cases to treat LGBT people as a […]