Celebration and Caution as Namibian High Court Strikes Down Law Criminalizing Homosexuality in Historic Ruling

by Melanie Nathan, June 21, 2024. A top Namibian court on Friday struck down the African country’s colonial-era laws outlawing homosexuality and effectively same-sex relationships, in a victory for the LGBTQ community. In this historic ruling the Namibian High Court of Windhoek has ruled that the law criminalizing sodomy is unconstitutional under the Constitution of … More Celebration and Caution as Namibian High Court Strikes Down Law Criminalizing Homosexuality in Historic Ruling

Official Ugandan Constitutional Court Ruling Killing the Anti-Homosexuality Act for Now

By Melanie Nathan, August 05, 2014. One can expect that if a Parliament fails to follow basic protocol and procedure and passionate local and International law experts get together using activists as Plaintiff’s, it is unlikely that the law will withstand the test of Constitutionality. That is what happened in the case of the Ugandan … More Official Ugandan Constitutional Court Ruling Killing the Anti-Homosexuality Act for Now