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Uzbekistan is facing a unique opportunity to finally decriminalize same-sex conduct between men in the country. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who has served as President since 2016, has launched a number of progressive reforms under his leadership. Now, gay Uzbekistan nationals could see reform of the country’s criminal justice system.
Currently, Article 120 of the country’s Criminal Code “stipulates that ‘bezakalbazlyk’ (sodomy), voluntary sexual intercourse between two male individuals, is punishable by one to three years of restricted liberty, or by up to three years of imprisonment.”
Gay Uzbekistan nationals are thus subjected to persecution, state surveillance and arbitrary arrests by the government by both state and non-state actors. Bias-motivated violence is a major problem faced by gay Uzbekistan nationals; and in fact, the UN Committee Against Torture has recommended that all allegations on torture against LGBTQ
Joint NGO Statement to Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council
46th Session
Your Excellency,
We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organizations, call on your government to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran at the 46th session of the Human Rights Council. We also urge your government to use this opportunity to voice concern at the grave and systematic violations of human rights reported by the Special Rapporteur, and to call on Iranian authorities to put an end to the endemic impunity that surrounds these violations.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hold Public Hearing on Colonisation of Indigenous Lands in Nicaragua
On March 18, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hold a public hearing on the impacts of the colonisation of Indigenous lands on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua at its 179th Period of Sessions.
In 2020 alone, at least 13 Indigenous rights defenders were killed, eight people injured, two people kidnapped, and one community forcibly displaced in the Indigenous territories of the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in northeastern Nicaragua, as part of ongoing violent colonisation of the region.
The public hearing comes after months of growing international pressure on the Nicaraguan government and the private sector to take concrete action against the invasion of Indigenous and Afrodescendant lands on the Caribbean coast.
Rights groups call on UN HRC to create accountability mechanism for Belarus
Women in black and with tape over their mouths hold white roses during a demonstration against the conviction of a doctor and journalist Katyarina Barisevich over the disclosure of a protester’s medical records, Minsk, Belarus, 2 March 2021, STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images The international community cannot remain passive in the face of the refusal of dialogue and the intensification of repression by Mr Lukashenko’s regime. New diplomatic weapons are needed to stop the continuing violations of human rights and press freedom” - EFJ
This statement was originally published on europeanjournalists.org on 10 March 2021.