This report, the second edition to an original published in 2016, 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.
Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights ruling provisions criminalising certain same-sex practices between consenting adult men in private was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court found that the applicant’s right to privacy had been violated.
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