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The Act was subsequently adapted, modified and incorporated into the codes of various British colonies throughout Africa, the Caribbean and South Pacific over the next half-century. By the time candidate states from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc applied for membership of the Council of Europe, it was a condition of their accession to decriminalise. Following intense international backlash, boycotts and diplomatic pressure, the Sultan of Brunei extended a moratorium on the death penalty to the new law. It leads me to hope that the emancipatory effects of the elimination of institutionalised prejudice against gays and lesbians will encourage amongst the heterosexual population a greater sensitivity to the variability of the human kind.

Read Human Dignity Trust’s Case Study on Belize for more information on how decriminalisation, and wider legislative reform of its sexual offences, was achieved.Amber is facing disciplinary measures not listed in her employee handbook Amber's prior experience as a personal assistant brought her to the attention of a headhunter. To join the Council of Europe, new member-states must undertake certain commitments, including conforming their criminal laws to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

This included many sexual offences such as the Acte for the punishment of the vice of Buggerie, punishable by death, passed as an Act of Parliament during Henry VIII’s reign. It was for this reason, rather than any tolerance or indifference, that sexual activity between women was never explicitly criminalised in the UK. The Cook Islands, a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand, inherited its criminalising provisions from the British during the colonial period, in which the English criminal law was imposed upon New Zealand and the Cook Islands.The Court also declared that the offences were “null and void” to the extent that they criminalised consensual sexual acts between adults in private. The study was based on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) and included about 15,000 middle and high school students who were followed for seven years into early adulthood. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei also were ruled by legislation based on Section 377. The High Court acknowledged, in line with domestic and international studies and case law, that criminal laws like s. Prior to the Sutherland decision, only about half of the Council of Europe member states had adopted an equal age of consent.