Unveiling Truths: The Recognition Of Human Rights For The LGTBQ Community In India - Myths And Realities

Dr. Navneet Kaur Chahal, BCom, LL.B., LL.M.(Goldmedialist), PhD, NCA Qualified

In many countries, being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) means living with routine discrimination. This discrimination could be based on their sexual orientation; gender identity), gender expression or sex. All throughout the planet, the basic freedoms of lesbian, gay, sexually unbiased, transsexual, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals are abused day by day. Individuals are treated with Cruelty, beaten, detained, or executed by their own administrations basically on account of their character.

More than 70 countries STILL with laws of sodmy; punishment includes flogging, imprisonment, and in many countries, even the death penalty., In 2014 there are 80 states where consensual same- sex conduct between adult males is still a criminal.1 In five states, the death penalty can be imposed for these ‘offences’. Rather than repealing these laws, many states are endeavouring to further criminalise homosexuality, including in recent years, Uganda, South Sudan, Burundi, Liberia and Nigeria. Many of those who speak up for LGBT rights regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity are themselves treated with impunity.

LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people are struggling for equal rights. LGBT people are battling for their basic Human rights in parliament, in courtrooms and in the streets. LGBT People faces discrimination from name-calling and bullying, to being denied a job or appropriate healthcare, the range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging.