PRIVY COUNCIL STRIKES DOWN BUGGERY LAW PROVISIONS IN LANDMARK JASON JONES CASE
Trinidad and Tobago has reached a significant milestone in its human rights landscape, following a landmark ruling by the United Kingdom’s Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in favour of LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Jason Jones.The decision marks a major development in the longstanding constitutional challenge to provisions of the country’s Sexual Offences Act, which criminalised consensual same-sex intimacy.
