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National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality v. Minister of Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa (9 October 1998)

Oct 9, 1998

Procedural Posture The National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and the Human Rights Commission brought a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of statutory and common law offences criminalising anal sex between consenting adult men (referred to as the...

Concluding Observations, CCPR/C/79/Add.92, 27 July 1998: Ecuador

Jul 27, 1998

8. The Committee welcomes the information that the Constitutional Court has declared unconstitutional the criminalization of private homosexual relations between consenting adults and the law excluding persons charged under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances...

Concluding Observations, CCPR/C/79/Add.88, 3 April 1998: Cyprus

Apr 3, 1998

11. The Committee notes with concern the discriminatory legal provisions which penalize homosexual acts and urges the State party to repeal them. Link to full text of the report: Concluding Observations-CCPR-Cyprus-1998-eng

Concluding Observations, A/53/38, paras. 354-427, 30 January 1998: Mexico

Jan 30, 1998

420. The Committee requests information in the next report on whether homosexuality is penalized in the criminal code. Link to full text of the report: Concluding Observations-CEDAW-Mexico-1998-eng

Case No. 111-97-TC, Constitutional Tribunal of Ecuador (27 November 1997)

Nov 27, 1997

Procedural Posture More than a thousand private citizens, many of them members of LGBT or human rights organisations, brought a public action challenging the constitutionality of the law criminalising same-sex sexual conduct. Facts Shortly before the public action was...