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Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Law & Policy, Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights
Region(s): Global
… impose new ones.” The OTP identifies numerous countries, including Afghanistan, Colombia and Yemen, where gender persecution targeting LGBTIQ people may have taken place. The ICC’s gender …
Content Type(s): Publication
Region(s): Asia, China, Timor-Leste, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan
… In countries where there are laws addressing domestic violence, redress and services do not adequately encompass LGBTQ survivors. As a result, they are often unable to seek justice …
Content Type(s): Press Release
Topic(s): Law & Policy
… 21, 2022 - During a speech at the annual National Day Rally, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that Section 377A of Singapore’s penal code will be repealed. The law … amendment protecting Singapore’s definition of marriage between a man and a woman. Mr. Lee further asserted that the government will continue to enact national policies ensuring that …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Law & Policy
Region(s): Sri Lanka
… pronouncements in a groundbreaking March 23 decision in which the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) found the government of … women. Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, a Sri Lankan lesbian and longtime activist in the struggle for LGBTI equality, brought the case before the CEDAW, which interprets the treaty obligations of … against Women. Sri Lanka inherited from its former British colonizer an 1883 Penal Code prohibiting “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” and “gross indecency between …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism, Legal Discrimination, Law & Policy
Region(s): Europe and Central Asia, Poland