Chapters: Toonen V. Australia, List of Lgbt-Related European Court of Human Rights Cases, Smith and Grady V. United Kingdom, Naz Foundation V. Govt. of Nct of Delhi, Dudgeon V United Kingdom, B?czkowski V Poland, Sutherland V United Kingdom, Bottoms V. Bottoms, X V United Kingdom, Laskey, Jaggard and Brown V United Kingdom, Case No. 111-97-Tc, Minister of Home Affairs V. Fourie, 2004 Fam Ca 297, Modinos V. Cyprus, Lopez V. River Oaks, National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and Another V. Minister of Justice and Others, Norris V. Ireland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Toonen v. Australia was a landmark human rights complaint brought before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) by Tasmanian resident Nicholas Toonen in 1994. The case resulted in the repeal of Australia's last sodomy laws when the Committee held that sexual orientation was included in the treatys antidiscrimination provisions as a protected status. In 1991, Toonen sent a communication to the Human Rights Committee in which he complained that Tasmanian laws criminalising consensual sex between adult males in private were a violation of his right to privacy under Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); distinguished between people on the basis of sexual activity, sexual orientation and identity in violation of article 26; and meant that gay men in Tasmania were unequal before the law. As a result of his complaint to the Human Rights Committee, Toonen lost his job as General Manager of the Tasmanian AIDS Council, because the Tasmanian Government threatened to withdraw the Councils funding unless Toonen was fired. On March 31, 1994, the Committee agreed that because of Tasmanias law, Australia was in breach of the obligat...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2078335