The United Nations body, UNAIDS has described as discriminatory, a recent High Court ruling in which two gay Vincentians living abroad mounted a challenge to this country’s Buggery and Gross Indecency Laws. The AIDS entity made its position known in the following statement: UNAIDS is concerned about the impact on peoples’ health and rights following the decision of the High Court of St. Vincent and the Grenadines regarding sections 146 …
UNAIDS is concerned about the impact on peoples’ health and rights following the decision of the High Court of St. Vincent and the Grenadines regarding sections 146 and 148 of the Criminal Code, which upholds discriminatory and harmful laws against LGBTQ people.
An independent umbrella of human rights organisations operating in the small islands of the eastern Caribbean has concluded that LGBTQ Vincentians face greater vulnerability following the High Court ruling on a same sex case last week Friday February, 16,2024. The Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE) said in a statement issued from Saint Lucia, that the High Court’s extraordinary ruling undermines the rights of LGBTQ+ people in St …
A case brought by a same sex couple challenging the buggery and gross indecency laws in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), was dismissed by the High Court on Friday February, 16, 2024. Justice Esco Henry dismissed the case brought by Javin Johnson and Sean Macleish, two gay Vincentian nationals living overseas.
In a controversial ruling, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' top court upheld anti-gay laws from British colonial times, spotlighting the enduring struggle for LGBTQ+ rights in the Caribbean and echoing similar legal battles across the region.