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Record Nr.

UNINA9910283650803321

Titolo

Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity in the Commonwealth : struggles for decriminalisation and change / / edited by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Human Rights Consortium, , 2013

ISBN

1-912250-13-6

9781912250134

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 562 pages)

Disciplina

346.0168

Soggetti

Same-sex marriage - Law and legislation

Transgender people - Legal status, laws, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

Human rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity are at last reaching the heart of global debates. Yet 78 states worldwide continue to criminalise same-sex sexual behaviour, and due to the legal legacies of the British Empire, 42 of these – more than half – are in the Commonwealth of Nations. In recent years many states have seen the emergence of new sexual nationalisms, leading to increased enforcement of colonial sodomy laws against men, new criminalisations of sex between women and discrimination against transgender people.