This map provides at a glance the status of sexual offences legislation in all five Commonwealth regions, highlighting good practice and identifying where there are gaps in protection, with a particular focus on women, children, LGBT+ people and people with disability.
Across the Commonwealth, outdated sexual offences laws fail to protect women, children, LGBT people and people with disability. The Human Dignity Trust has developed a set of good practice criteria, outlining what is necessary for these laws to be human rights compliant. This map, produced in May 2020, provides at a glance the status of sexual offences legislation in all five Commonwealth regions, outlining good practice and identifying gaps in protection.
This report lays out criteria for good practice for human rights compliant sexual offence laws in the Commonwealth.
This digital tool has assesses sexual offence laws in every Commonwealth country against a set of seventeen indicators to evaluate the extent to which their laws are human rights compliant.
This Legal Snapshot surveys the landscape of Commonwealth sexual offences legislation, examines discriminatory elements and patterns, identifies measurable indicators of good practice, and explores how effective law reform has been achieved in practice recently.
