Tunisian urt victory boosts ph to end gay sex ban | Rters

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• TUNISIAN URT VICTORY BOOSTS PH TO END GAY SEX BAN
• OPENLY GAY LAWYER SEEKS TUNISIAN PRINCY FIRST FOR ARAB WORLD

TUNISIAN URT VICTORY BOOSTS PH TO END GAY SEX BAN

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Censorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Suggt Public Opn DataPublic OpnAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors? 9%) Mentned homosexualsDid not mentn homosexuals (40%)Jtifiabily of homosexualy?

(93%) No / Unsure / Did Not AnswerAcceptance of Homosexuals as Neighbors? Homosexual activy Tunisia is illegal (imprisonment as punishment). Illegal (imprisonment as punishment) Penal Co of 1913: Article 230: “The mascule homosexualy and feme homosexualy that is not vered by any of the other prev articl, is punished wh imprisonment for three years” (unofficial translatn) Male illegal, female legalPunishment of 2- 3 years prison.

Imprisonment as punishment In Tunisia is illegal to promote the topic of HomosexualyRight to change legal genr Tunisia? Current statSce Jul 25, 1957No protectns crimalizatn pendg for homosexualy. Current statSce Jul 25, 1957Legal there is no laws banned gay people to donate bloodConversn therapy Tunisia?

OPENLY GAY LAWYER SEEKS TUNISIAN PRINCY FIRST FOR ARAB WORLD

Conversn therapy Tunisia is not banned Human rights mister said gays should be medilly treated. Decrimalizatn of Homosexualy is age of nsent Tunisia? “The vis provis an important opportuny to asss the implementatn of human rights standards to bat vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse people the untry, ” said Madrigal-Borloz.

This mandate rponds to the ncerns of the ternatnal muny about the tolerance, discrimatn and particularly egreg ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, as documented the two reports produced 2011 and 2015 by the High Commissner for Human Rights and the thematic reports submted by the mandate to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council. The progrs rultg om the Revolutn terms of eedom and digny, which are reflected the nstutnal amework that enshr the prcipl of equaly and non-discrimatn, nstute a solid foundatn on which Tunisia n build to ntue the advanc protectn agast vlence and discrimatn and for the full guarantee of the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) persons.

One of the rnerston of the creatn of my mandate is the regnn that gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and genr diverse persons have existed and ntue to exist all rners of the world, all regns and untri, all cultur and all eras. In many stutns, for example, trans women have been scribed as gay men. In this perspective, some have stated that there are few mands for more protectn of LGBT people and that the crimalizatn of homosexualy has not been clud the major mands of the Tunisian revolutn and, the face of the current reali of unemployment and enomic stagnatn, ntue to be unimportant the ey of most cizens.

Homosexual men, particular, live their liv unr the threat of crimalizatn. This crimalizatn also creas the fear of homosexual and trans populatns, as well as sex workers, to be arrted and forc them to go unrground, to rea om participatg HIV preventn and HIV risk preventn programm or even to posss ndoms or lubrints, as this uld nstute, for police officers, physil proof of homosexualy or sex work.

In practice, prison thori and officers regnize that homosexual men are part of the prison populatn and also clu trans women that populatn. I was able to vis the largt prison the untry and observe the differentiated approach taken for homosexual men.

As any other state stutn, the crimalizatn of homosexualy has a very ncrete impact on the enjoyment of rights: for example, I have been rmed that prison thori do not distribute and allow the distributn of ndoms prison bee this would be nsired an act of promotg homosexualy – which is crimalized. 3 Consequently, society punish not only homosexual behavur unr article 230 of the Crimal Co, but all inti and exprsns that are perceived by some as vlatg the "social pact" and an afont to ctoms and tradns. Acrdg to my rmatn, however, the articl allow the judiciary and the secury forc to prosecute and nvict people on the basis of their mere non-normative appearance or what uld be associated wh behavur suggtg homosexualy or by havg accs to rmatn relatg to their personal data.

12 The rmatn available to me also dit an almost systematic e of the practice of anal ttg to prove homosexual relatns, vlatn of ternatnal texts relatg to the preventn of torture and plete aquacy wh the scientific data on the probative value of this tt and the negative impact on the persons subjected to . I note wh astonishment the nfn between the tts rried out to prove sexual asslt and those rried out orr to prove supposed homosexualy.

LGBT sex workers face multiple and aggravated forms of discrimatn and, if they are homosexual or trans, double crimalizatn for homosexualy, moraly or cent asslt. I have received several ttimoni om gay and trans sex workers who were victims of police harassment, extortn, and vlence by law enforcement officers.