Resources

The 2014 judgment of the Ugandan Constitutional Court declaring Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act void on the basis that Parliament did not have the required quorum when the Act was passed on 20 December 2013.

Human Dignity Trust's briefing note details how the new Criminal Code of the Gambia (2014) further criminalise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

Presentation of the Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust, Téa Braun, ‘Dark Side of the Moon: The Legacy of British Sexual Offences Laws in the Commonwealth’, to the Legal and Judicial Legacies of Empire Conference on 17 June 2014.

Decision of the European Court of Human Rights to discontinue the case of Mr H. Ç., following the decriminalisation of same-sex activity by the Parliament of Northern Cyprus.

This report details the aftermath of the enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) by the Ugandan Parliament in December 2013. It outlines the persecution of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Uganda in the immediate period following the passing of the Act.

In 2014, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted Resolution 275 which sought to protect LGBTI people from human rights violations. The resolution is titled, ‘Resolution on the Protection against Violence and other Human Rights Violations against Persons on the Basis of their Real or Imputed Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity’.