Instruments Archives: Yogyakarta Principles
Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 2/2010, Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (10 August 2010)
Procedural Posture The Federal Attorney General challenged the constitutionality of a series of Civil Code amendments that permitted same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. Facts In December 2009 the legislature of the Federal District amended a series of articles of the Federal District’s Civil Code. Article 146, as amended, defined marriage in gender-neutral terms. […]
Re Alex, Family Court of Australia (6 May 2009)
Procedural Posture The Government and Secretary of the Department of Human Services brought suit on behalf of Alex for a declaration from the Court that the Secretary could allow the seventeen-year old to undergo a bilateral mastectomy. A 2004 ruling had allowed the Secretary to consent to hormone therapy but had not considered the possibility […]
Sunil Babu Pant and Others/ v. Nepal Government and Others, Supreme Court of Nepal (21 December 2007)
(Note: Summary based on translation published in National Judicial Academy Law Journal, 2 NJA Law Journal 2008, pp. 261-286.) Procedural Posture In April 2007, the Blue Diamond Society, MITINI Nepal, Cruse AIDS Nepal, and Parichaya Nepal, all organizations representing lesbians, gays, and “people of the third gender”, filed a writ petition under Article 107(2) of […]