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IACHR welcomes decision to decriminalise consensual sexual relations between same sex adults

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WASHINGTON, Aug 15, CMC – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is  calling on Caribbean countries that still maintain criminalising legislation to repeal them as it welcomed the ruling last month by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC)  which declared unconstitutional, the criminalisation of consensual sexual relations between same sex adults.

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