8. Jayna Kothari: Overturning Section 377 - The Indian Experience
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About 60 participants from around 20 Myanmar and international businesses, as well as LGBT+ rights groups, trade union rights, international organisations, experts and lawyers discussed attended a workshop on 28/29 August at the Rose Garden Hotel, Yangon to discuss how businesses can support LGBT+ equality in Myanmar. Read more: https://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/news/lgbt-equality.html
8. Jayna Kothari: Overturning Section 377 - The Indian Experience
- 1. The Indian Experience with Overturning Section 377 Jayna Kothari
- 2. Started in 2000 Initial petition filed by Naz Foundation in Delhi High Court Was dismissed as having no standing Supreme court overturned it and remanded it back to Delhi High Court
- 3. Several groups joined the petition Voices against 377, Parents groups, academics, health rights groups 2009: Historic Delhi High court judgment reading down Section 377 Appeals filed in the Supreme court by Suresh Koushal and others 2013 Supreme Court judgment: overturning the Delhi High Court order and holding that only Parliament can set aside the law and not the court. That LGBT persons are a miniscule minority. Review petitions dismissed Curative petitions - pending
- 4. 2014: Judgement of the SC in NALSA v. Union of India 5 new petitions filed New interventions
- 5. The Privacy judgment of the Supreme Court in 2017 Held that the right to privacy was a fundamental right That the right to privacy would include the right to sexual orientation and gender identity
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