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MAY 2014 9TH EDITION - STATE-SPONSORED HOMOPHOBIA - A world survey of laws: Criminalisation,

15 Jun 2015

Apart from the world overview of legislation affecting the rights of LGB people and the individual regional sections devoted to the criminalising legislation of Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean and Oceania, the content of this 2014 report contains a series of articles by Anthony Oluoch (Africa), Douglas Sanders (Asia) and Björn van Roozendaal (Europe), each highlighting the developments. [...] The first part of the report presents a global overview of developments of LGB legislation in a variety of legal matters: criminalisation and decriminalisation of consensual homosexual acts between adults; the emergence of so- called “homosexual propaganda” laws; equalisation of ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts; prohibitions of discrimination based on sexual orientation in empl. [...] In his recent analysis of the HRC, Rathberger notes that amongst all the recommendations issued through the first cycle of the UPR (sessions 1-12),16 the more specific or action-oriented the recommendations the lower the acceptance rate. [...] 26 In the Republic of Congo Brazzaville, the text of the Penal Code is the one that was in force when the country was still a colony of France. [...] 8711), proposed to ban the promotion of homosexuality in media is expected to be reconsidered at the parliamentary level, as is the Draft Law No.1155 ‘On the Prohibition of Propaganda of Homosexuality Aimed at Children’, see Nash Mir’s On the Threshold: The situation of LGBT people in Ukraine in 2013 at lgbt_ukraine_2013-e.pdf.
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96
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Switzerland