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Inter-American Commission On Human Rights Rules Jamaica’s «Buggery» Law Incompatible With American Convention On Human Rights
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ruled end of February that Jamaica’s colonial-era ban on same-sex relations, known as the «anti-buggery» law, is incompatible with the American Convention on Human Rights.
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A Third of the World’s Countries Continue to Criminalise Same-Sex Relations
On September 6 a year has passed since the Supreme Court of India made the historic decision to decriminalise same-sex relations, causing reverberations across the world, and symbolising the global trend towards decriminalisation.
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India: Supreme Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law
India’s landmark Supreme Court decision that criminalising consensual same-sex conduct is unconstitutional is a major victory for human rights and the LGBT people’s rights to privacy and non-discrimination in the world’s second most populous country, Human Rights Watch said today.