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Gabon: Statement By the Spokesperson On the Decriminalisation of Same-Sex Relations
EU External Action, 30 June 2020
Statements by the Spokesperson Read more »
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Gabon: Decriminalisation of Same-Sex Relations a Welcome Step for Equality, Says UN Expert
OHCHR, 1 July 2020
On 29 June 2020 the Parliament removed the provision in the Penal Code that criminalises homosexuality, following a lower house vote on 23 June. Read more »
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Gabon: Gabon Moves to Allow Same-Sex Relations
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 24 June 2020
Gabon is one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to decriminalise gay sex Read more »
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Gabon: Gabon Takes First Step to Decriminalizing Gay Sex
RFI, 24 June 2020
In a surprise move, less than a year after a new penal code criminalized homosexuality, Gabon's lower house of parliament voted to reverse the law that bans same sex relations. Read more »
Gabon Moves to Allow Same-Sex Relations
More than 40 members of the lower house of the country's parliament have backed a proposed initiative to revise an article of a 2019 law that criminalised homosexuality, while 24 voted against and 25 abstained.
