Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957354886 ISBN 13: 9780957354883

Verlag: University of London Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Human rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity are at last reaching the heart of global debates. Yet 78 states worldwide continue to criminalise same-sex sexual behaviour, and due to the legal legacies of the British Empire, 42 of these - more than half - are in the Commonwealth of Nations. In recent years many states have seen the emergence of new sexual nationalisms, leading to increased enforcement of colonial sodomy laws against men, new criminalisations of sex between women and discrimination against transgender people.

Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth challenges these developments as the first book to focus on experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) and all non-heterosexual people in the Commonwealth. The volume offers the most internationally extensive analysis to date of the global struggle for decriminalisation of same-sex sexual behaviour and relationships.

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Dr Corinne Lennox is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Associate Director of the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of London Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0957354886
• ISBN 13: 9780957354883
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 582
• Herausgeber: Lennox Corinne, Waites Matthew
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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