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Lawrence v. Texas, United States Supreme Court (26 June 2003)

Jun 26, 2003

Procedural Posture The defendants were convicted of “anal sex with a member of the same sex” in violation of Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal Code. At trial, they challenged the law on the grounds that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of...

Commission on Human Rights Resolution, E/CN.4/RES/2003/67, April 25, 2003: The question of the death penalty

Apr 25, 2003

4. Urges all States that still maintain the death penalty: (…) (d) To ensure that the notion of “most serious crimes” does not go beyond intentional crimes with lethal or extremely grave consequences and that the death penalty is not imposed for...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, E/CN.4/2003/75/Add.1, February 27, 2003: Zimbabwe

Feb 27, 2003

648. In August 2001 the Sexual Offenses Act was enacted, which improved the legal recourses available to women. […] Unfortunately, the same Act also criminalizes same-sex acts. Link to full text of the...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.1, February 27, 2003: Uganda

Feb 27, 2003

1861. On 7 May 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and on the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.1, February 27, 2003: Egypt

Feb 27, 2003

446. A 19-year-old university student was reportedly arrested by a police officer from the Department for Eradicating Crimes Against Public Morality at the Interior Ministry, in Cairo, on 19 May 2002, and taken to the Vice Squad headquarters in the Tahrir...