Human Dignity Campaign
"The Forum tackled the issue of incriminating against nature sexual relations - that Justice interprets as homosexual relations - and the one year imprisonment sentence related to these acts. It also underlined the wide scope of the amendment proposal in incriminating homosexual relations; if the current text sentences for against nature sexual relations, the amendment text sentences for any sexual relation that is against nature, which means that it covers now all sexual acts between all homosexuals - men or women. Therefore, the Forum concluded the following:

- the lack of scientific evidence for considering homosexual relations to be against nature;

- the incrimination of homosexual relations is unacceptable for the sake of privacy protection and avoiding social marginalization;

- therefore, the amendment proposal is rejected for being contradictory to the development trend occurred during the last decades;

- the annulment of Article 534 of the Penal Code."

(Recommendations of the Forum on "Human Dignity in the Penal Code", May 2003, Beirut. The forum includes Hurriyat Khasa/Personal Freedoms, League of Lebanese Democratic Women, Lebanese Association for Human Rights, Amnesty International/Local Chapters)

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