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The colonial-era law banning same-sex relations in Saint Kitts and Nevis has been overturned in a "landmark" ruling.

In a second case of historic precedent, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis...

BASSETERRE, St Kitts – The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) on Monday upheld a motion by Jamal Jeffers, a self-described gay man challenging the constitutionality that sections 56 and 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act, criminalises buggery and indecent assault against males respectively. Jeffers, a citizen of St Kitts-Nevis as well as the second claimant, the St Kitts and Nevis Alliance for Equality (SKNAFE), had in a motion …

UNAIDS welcomes a St. Kitts and Nevis High Court ruling that laws criminalizing gay sex are unconstitutional, meaning that they are immediately struck from the legal code. The Court upheld the plaintiffs’ claim that Sections 56 and 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act violated the right to privacy and freedom of expression.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court on Monday upheld a motion by a self-described gay man challenging the constitutionality of sections of the Offences Against the Person...

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Caribbean regional court has ruled that a Saint Kitts and Nevis prohibition on gay sex is unconstitutional because it violates the right to privacy, striking down one of a handful of bans on same-sex intercourse that still exist in the region.

A Caribbean regional court has ruled that a Saint Kitts and Nevis prohibition on gay sex is unconstitutional because it violates the right to privacy, striking down one of a handful of bans on

Vulnerable women are being imprisoned for ending pregnancies in Britain. It’s time to legalise abortion, says barrister Charlotte Proudman

He hurt another person by wanton or furious driving.

Law in the UK currently allows abortions up to 24 weeks where two doctors agree there is a risk to the mothers or existing childrens mental or physical health.