Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth
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ArtikelUtgivningsinformation: London University of London Press University of London Press [Imprint] 2013Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (572 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780957354883
- 9781912250639
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social groups, communities and identities
- Social classes
- British Empire
- Commonwealth
- J Society and Social Sciences
- JB Society and culture
- JBS Social groups
- JBSA Social classes
- LGBT
- activism
- communities and identities
- gender identity
- general
- human rights
- reform
- thema EDItEUR
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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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