{"id":16900,"date":"2018-06-06T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:16:16","slug":"news-release-challenge-launched-against-two-sections-of-barbados-discriminatory-sexual-offences-act","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/news-release-challenge-launched-against-two-sections-of-barbados-discriminatory-sexual-offences-act\/","title":{"rendered":"News release: Challenge launched against two sections of Barbados&#8217; discriminatory sexual offences act"},"content":{"rendered":"Three Barbadians \u2014 a trans woman, a lesbian and a gay man \u2014 are filing today a petition against Barbados before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) challenging laws criminalising \u201cbuggery\u201d and other intimacy between consenting partners, including same-sex partners, as violating numerous rights guaranteed in the <i>American Convention on Human Rights<\/i>. The IACHR is a principal and autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS) whose mission is to promote and protect human rights in the American hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Challenge launched against two sections of Barbados' discriminatory sexual offences act\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/16897\/?tmstv=1775583002\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Barbadians \u2014 a trans woman, a lesbian and a gay man \u2014 are filing today a petition against Barbados before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) challenging laws criminalising \u201cbuggery\u201d and other intimacy between consenting partners, including same-sex partners, as violating numerous rights guaranteed in the American Convention on Human Rights. The IACHR &#8230; <a title=\"News release: Challenge launched against two sections of Barbados&#8217; discriminatory sexual offences act\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/news-release-challenge-launched-against-two-sections-of-barbados-discriminatory-sexual-offences-act\/\" aria-label=\"More on News release: Challenge launched against two sections of Barbados&#8217; discriminatory sexual offences act\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[153,146,160],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-16900","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-lgbtq-rights","publication_topics-discrimination","publication_topics-the-caribbean","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16901,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/16900\/revisions\/16901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}