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UN Body Condemns Sri Lanka’s Criminalization of Same-Sex Acts

By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan activists march in Colombo on World AIDS day, December 1, 2012.  © 2012 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena In a major judgment issued this week, a United Nations treaty body called on Sri Lanka’s government to repeal its law criminalizing adult, consensual same-sex conduct – including between women. The case was brought under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) by Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, an LGBT rights activist who faced harassment and discrimination for her sexual orientation and human rights advocacy on behalf…


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