Embrace diversity and energize humanity 2017, para. 34
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- There are other laws and policies of a more indirect nature that might also be negatively applied to certain groups and persons in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity. They include laws based on public decency, public health and security, at times in the guise of local criminal laws and regulations. For examples, transgender women are often targeted and prosecuted on the basis of laws criminalizing sex work, or under laws against “vagrancy”. There are equally challenging implications of various religious laws when applied strictly.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Decriminalization of consensual same-sex relations and gender identity (covering also gender expression)
- Paragraph number
- 34
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