Right to sexuality: Difference between revisions

Examples of violent acts against people of diverse sexual orientation are too numerous to account here, and they occur in all parts of the world. A particularly distressing example is the sexual assault and murder of fifteen lesbians in [[Thailand]] in March 2012. In that example, two lesbian couples were killed by men who objected to their relationship and who were embarrassed when they were unable to convince the women into heterosexual relationships with themselves.<ref name="iglhrc.org 2012 e134">{{cite press release|title=LGBT Human Rights Advocates Charge Thai Police Ignore Fifteen Killings of Lesbians and Toms, Dismiss as “Love"Love Gone Sour”Sour" |website=iglhrc.org |date=2012-05-15 |url=http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/pressroom/pressrelease/1506.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306220219/http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/pressroom/pressrelease/1506.html |archive-date=2013-03-06 |url-status=dead |access-date=2023-09-17}}</ref>

The [[right to privacy]] is a protected freedom under the UDHR,{{sfn|Universal Declaration of Human Rights|1948 |loc=Article 12}} and the ICCPR<ref name="International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1976">{{cite web |title=International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |website=United Nations Treaty Collection |date=1976-03-23 |url=https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000280004bf5&clang=_en |ref={{sfnref |International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |1976}} |access-date=2023-09-17 |at=Article 17 |archive-date=20 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620103744/https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000280004bf5&clang=_en |url-status=live }}</ref> which reflects the "widespread, if not universal, human need to pursue certain activities within an intimate sphere, free of outside interference. The possibility to do so is fundamental to personhood."<ref name="Heinze 1995 pp. 172–173">{{cite book |last=Heinze |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Heinze |chapter=10.1 Aspects of the Right |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sexualorientatio0000hein/page/172/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration |title=Sexual Orientation: a Human Right |publisher=Kluwer Law International |publication-place=Dordrecht Boston |date=1995 |isbn=978-0-7923-3018-9 |oclc=1392112413 |pagepages=172–173 |url=https://archive.org/details/sexualorientatio0000hein |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Intimate relationships, whether between two people of the same sex or of different sexes, are among those activities that are subject to a right of privacy.

In 2005, twenty-nine experts undertook the drafting of the [[Yogyakarta Principles]] on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.<ref name="Yogyakarta Principles plus 10 2017">{{cite web |title=Yogyakarta Principles plus 10 |website=yogyakartaprinciples.org |date=2017-11-30 |url=https://yogyakartaprinciples.org/principles-en/yp10/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722124004/https://yogyakartaprinciples.org/principles-en/yp10/ |archive-date=2023-07-22 |url-status=live |access-date=2023-09-16}}</ref> The document was intended to set out experiences of human rights violations against people of diverse sexual orientation and transgender people, the application of international human rights law to those experiences and the nature of obligations on States in respect of those experiences.<ref name="OFlaherty Fisher 2008 pp. 207–248">{{cite journal |lastlast1=O'Flaherty |firstfirst1=Michael |author-link=Michael O'Flaherty |last2=Fisher |first2=J. |title=Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and International Human Rights Law: Contextualising the Yogyakarta Principles |journal=Human Rights Law Review |publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) |volume=8 |issue=2 |date=2008-01-01 |issn=1461-7781 |doi=10.1093/hrlr/ngn009 |pages=207–248}} Reprinted in {{cite book |lastlast1=O'Flaherty |firstfirst1=M. |last2=Fisher |first2=J. |chapter=Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and International Human Rights Law: Contextualising the Yogyakarta Principles |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/healthhumanright0000unse_y7u8/page/356/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive |editor-last=Grodin |editor-first=Michael |editor-last2=Tarantola |editor-first2=Daniel |editor-last3=Annas |editor-first3=George |editor-last4=Gruskin |editor-first4=Sofia |title=Health and Human Rights in a Changing World |url=https://archive.org/details/healthhumanright0000unse_y7u8 |url-access=registration |publisher=Routledge |date=2013-07-04 |isbn=978-1-136-68856-0 |oclc=848918181 |pages=356–388 |ref=none}}</ref>

*{{cite web |title=Universal Declaration of Human Rights |publisher=United Nations |year=1948 |url=https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights |access-date=2023-09-16 |ref={{sfnref|Universal Declaration of Human Rights|1948}} |oclc=1194848956 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230915042433/https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights |archive-date=2023-09-15}}

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