Tag: buggery
Disappointed that legal challenges against anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were unsuccessful
Equal Rights, Access and Opportunities SVG Inc. («ERAO SVG») is disappointed that the consolidated cases of Vincentians Javin Kevin Vinc Johnson v The Attorney General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines et al and Sean Mac Leish v The Attorney General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines et al were unsuccessful in the High Court of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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.
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.
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.
Sexual Offences Act 1967: Reform and repression
The criminalisation of homosexuality did not end in the UK until 2013 – a full 46 years after the Sexual Offences Act 1967. So don’t be misled by the celebrations on 27 July, which will mark the fiftieth anniversary of this legislation.
Pratt & Smith – Last men hanged in England for gay sex
One hundred and eighty years ago, on 27 November 1835, a crowd gathered outside Newgate Prison in London to witness a macabre, notorious and historic event – the hanging of the last two men in England to be executed for the ‘abominable crime of buggery’ (anal sex).