The Time Has Come for India to Stop Making Criminals of People Who Love Each Other

Expand LGBT rights activists in Mumbai, India, celebrate after a Supreme Court announcement of a prior appeal of its 2013 decision on section 377, February 2, 2016. © 2016 Reuters In October 2017, India’s Godrej Industries hosted the release of global corporate standards to support the business community in ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people, at their Mumbai headquarters. As part of a panel to discuss the Standards of Conduct built around the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, we took questions from the audience.…

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