Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Saint Lucia High Court Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A local market in Castries, St Lucia, Caribbean, April 2019. © 2019 Fokke Baarssen/Shutterstock In a landmark victory for human rights, Saint Lucia has decriminalized consensual same-sex conduct. The High Court’s decision strikes down laws that criminalized intimacy between same-sex partners, which are discriminatory and inconsistent with international human rights standards.Until this ruling, Saint Lucia’s Criminal Code punished “buggery” and “gross indecency” with up to 10 years in prison. Although rarely enforced, this vague law and similar ones…

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