International Best Practice Guide to Equality on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

See 'Attachments' for full description. The Government Equalities Office are seeking the development of a guide which aims to share international best practice on equality with regard to protecting against discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and sex characteristics. Although 36 out of 52 Commonwealth member states criminalise homosexuality, there has been progress in some parts of the Commonwealth, such as Nauru, Seychelles and Mozambique decriminalising same sex acts in the last couple of years. But positive achievements go beyond decriminalisation of same sex acts and a number of countries have laws protecting against discrimination in employ…

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